Re: st: [Fwd: Help with a graphing problem]

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 08:55 AM 7/7/2004 -0800, Jon Ebeling wrote:
> I"ve taken it from the latest book by Lawrence Hamilton, Statistics with 
> Stata 8. I"ve used his books for teaching stata for ten years it seems. 
> This problem,  however, has me baffled. If someone has a thought on what 
> is wrong I'd appreciate it.
>
> graph twoway scatter f1 f2, yline(0) xline(0) mlabel(planet) 
> mlabsize(medsmall) ylabel(, angle(horizontal)) xlabel ( -1.5 ( -.5 ) 1.5, grid)
> option xlabel() not allowed invalid syntax
> r(198);
What page is the example from?  I notice you've got a space after xlabel 
but not the other parameters -- sometimes Stata gets picky about such things.


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