I have written a brief ado to address this problem with graphs. It
isn't fully automated in terms of selecting the specific numbers, but
a wrapper to select "nice" numbers for the labeled ticks could be
used. It's short enough that I can just list it:
program define labpct
version 9.2
args start step end decimals loc
forvalues i=`start'(`step')`end' {
local pct: di %5.`decimals'f `i'*100
local pct = trim("`pct'")
local pctlist `"`pctlist' `i' "`pct'%" "'
}
c_local `loc' `"`pctlist'"'
end
The typical syntax is something like
labpct 0 .02 .1 0 ylab
The arguments are starting value, step value, max value, number of
digits after decimal in the percentage, and name of local macro to
contain the result. This command would result in a local macro called
ylab that looks like this:
di `"`ylab'"'
0 "0%" .02 "2%" .04 "4%" .06 "6%" .08 "8%" .1 "10%"
A subsequent graph command could then be :
graph ...., ylab(`ylab')
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Richard Goldstein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that Nick's suggestion would solve my, and other people's, problem
> completely
>
> I also did not understand Frank's comment
>
> Rich
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