Re: st: Value labels won't show on box plot axis

[vwiggins@stata.com (Vince Wiggins, StataCorp)]

Lee Walsh <l.walsh@ucl.ac.uk> reports that -graph box- does not respect
the -valuelabel- suboption of option -ylabel()-.

> graph box response [...], 
>       [...]
>       ylabel(1(1)7, valuelabel) 
>       [...]

Lee is right, -valuelabel- is ignored.  It is also ignored on 
-graph bar- and -graph dot-.  This behavior has been in -graph- since
Stata 8, and I am surprised Lee is the first person to come across it.

I suspect it has remained hidden so long because, as Allan Reese
<allan.reese@cefas.co.uk> notes, folks rarely use categorical responses
on these types of graph.

Regardless, we will make -valuelabel- work on these graphs.  I do not
want to promise an immediate solution, because these graphs are not
actually plotting the original data, but a mix of original data and
derived statistics.  That just makes the solution more subtle, and we
want to be careful that it has no unexpected consequences.

In the interim, hopefully Nick Cox's workaround <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
will serve Lee.  Nick's solution is every bit as general the
-valuelabel- suboption.  I reproduce Nick's solution below my
signature.

 
-- Vince
   vwiggins@stata.com

forval i = 1/7 {
      local call `call' `i' "`: label (response) `i''"
}

graph box ... , ... ylabel(`call')

Where -7- is the number of categories and -response- is the y variable

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