Clive,
How about using the rule option for the axis labels? Something like:
. use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r9/ibm.dta
(Source: Yahoo! Finance)
. tsline ibm, ylabel(-6 "-600" -4 "-400" -2 "-200" 0 "0" 2 "200" 4 "400",
angle(0))
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Clive Nicholas
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 5:47 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Automatically changing -ylabel()- values using -graph-
>
> Stata 8.2, Windows 2000
>
> After carefully checking -whelp axis_label_options-, as well the relevant
> pages in Mitchell (2004), I find that I'm unable to automatically change
> the values in the y-axis of any graph I generate by a pre-specified
> factor. I looked at the various possibilities of the -ylabel()- option
> very closely.
>
> An example: I can happily fire up this command
>
> . graph twoway tsline beconch belabch, xsize(9) ysize(6) clpattern(dash)
> xlabel(5(10)125) ylabel(, angle(0)) scheme(s1mono)
>
> without any problems. However, the above pair of variables had to be
> normalized to take values between 0-1 only for other purposes. I want the
> graph re-expressed in its original 0-100 values. I know I could easily
> -generate- new variables that range from 0-100, but I'm surprised that
> there does not seem to be an option within -graph- that would allow one to
> do this
>
> . graph twoway tsline beconch belabch, xsize(9) ysize(6) clpattern(dash)
> xlabel(5(10)125) ylabel(factor(100), angle(0)) scheme(s1mono)
>
> automatically, without the need to create new variables first. Am I being
> picky here, do I have a point or (even better) can this indeed be done
> already? Any thoughts or hints are welcome: ta.
>
> CLIVE NICHOLAS |t: 0(044)7903 397793
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> References:
>
> Mitchell MN (2004) A VISUAL GUIDE TO STATA GRAPHICS, College Station, TX:
> Stata Press.
>
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