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Re: st: mylabels axis label alignment with comma format


From   "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: mylabels axis label alignment with comma format
Date   Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:04:25 -0700

Nick,

You can see the extra spaces in the second one. When the range of the
x-axis gets large, the gap becomes much more pronounced:

. mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels)
0 "1" 5.703782474656201 "300" 8.699514748210191 "6000" 9.798127036878302 "18000"

. mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%6.0fc)
0 " 1" 5.703782474656201 " 300" 8.699514748210191 " 6,000"
9.798127036878302 "18,000"

DVM

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you show us the contents of the local macro? Is -mylabels- producing a
> crazy macro or -kdensity- being awkward? (I can't experiment with Stata
> right now.)
>
>
> On 13 Sep 2013 at 03:39, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am having trouble getting small values to align correctly when using
>> the comma format and Nicholas Cox's -mylabels-. The first kernel
>> density plot below looks great, but when I try to format the axis
>> labels, the numbers on the left drift too far to the right.
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> replace price = price/100 if price <5000
>> gen lnp=ln(price)
>> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels)
>> kdensity lnp, xlabel(`labels')
>> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%6.0fc)
>> kdensity lnp, xlabel(`labels')
>>
>>
>> DVM
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