st: RE: Maker label position using mlabv() in box plots

[Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu>]

Michael,

I was able to reproduce this error using auto.dta.  I did a trace and found the -syntax- statement in the ado-file for -graph box- and it does not even mention the -mlabvposition- option.  It appears that this is a bug.  Although it should not be hard for StataCorp to reproduce, here is the code I used, in case you want to report it:

. sysuse auto
. graph box price, marker(1, mlabel(make) mlabv(turn))

Using -turn- as the position variable is not really appropriate, but it doesn't really matter what you put there because it won't be accepted in any case.

As to what to do in the meantime, perhaps you can use the -mlabposition()- option which takes a constant from 0-12 as an argument.

Regards,
Joe Canner
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Koelle
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 12:30 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Maker label position using mlabv() in box plots

Dear Statalist,

in a box plot generated by - graph box - I want to label outliers. In order to reduce overlapping of text, I'd like to define the position of each label with a byte variable "pos", as in:

graph box d_hhsize, marker(1, mlabel(district) mlabv(pos))

However, I get the error message "option mlabv() not allowed". Anything that can be done about this?

Thanks, Michael

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