On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Austin Nichols wrote:
:Ignoring the rest of the problem, look at what a nice informative
:error message you got--why are you specifying the dates in the
:tlabel() option as strings, rather than numbers? You can get the
:corresponding numbers easily enough:
:. di mdy(9,1,1992)
Sure. That's a work around, but the whole point of tlab is to be able to
use real values. From the man for axis_label_options:
tlabel(), tmlabel(), ttick(), and tmtick() also accept a datelist and
an extra type of rule
So as a kludge:
format date %5.0f
list date
. list date
+-------+
| date |
|-------|
1. | 11932 |
2. | 12085 |
3. | 12235 |
4. | 12358 |
5. | 12753 |
|-------|
6. | 13057 |
7. | 13423 |
8. | 14184 |
9. | 14884 |
10. | 15249 |
|-------|
11. | 15614 |
12. | 15979 |
+-------+
lab def q 11932 "1992Q2" 12085 "1993Q1" 12235 "1993Q2" 12358 "1993Q4"
12753 "1994Q4" 13057 "1995Q4" 13423 "1996Q4" ///
14184 "1998Q4" 14884 "2000Q4" 15249 "2001Q4" ///
15614 "2002Q4" 15979 "2003Q4"
lab val date q
then use the values option when labeling.
Inelegant springs to mind ;-) And the error message doesn't explain why
the faq says you can enter %d formatted values but command seems to want
numbers.
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