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st: RE: -graph twoway- and x-axis positioning


From   "Stephen P. Jenkins" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: -graph twoway- and x-axis positioning
Date   Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:39:49 -0000

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
An Excel-using colleague has asked me how to have the x-axis of a
twoway plot go through zero (or some other number) on the y-axis.

Consider 
	sysuse auto
	ge y = price - 5000
	* x-axis below all values (default)
	scatter y mpg	
	* line through zero; axis labelling and ticks below
	scatter y mpg, yline(0) xscale(noline)
	* ? how to force x-axis through zero ?
	
I've looked through the [G] manual, and searched the Statalist
archive, but have not yet been able to discover how to do this.  (It's
not necessarily aesthetically desirable, I know, but I have been
presented with the 'challenge'.)
----
Do you mean you want ticks and x-axis labels superimposed within the
data region? I'd refuse to play, regardless of whether it can be done.


Nick 
[email protected] 
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You want the ticks and labels moved into the inner plot region??
Seems like a bad idea, but you could write a little pre-processing
program to accumulate the necessary ticks (lines) and labels (text) in
a local.  Is it worth the effort?
Austin Nichols
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The answer to Nick and Austin's opening questions is "yes" -- though I
strongly agree with their additional remarks about the general
undesirability of doing this (as my final sentence hinted).

The background: I am trying to persuade some sceptical colleagues to
change from using Excel for graphics to using Stata for graphics --
for reproducibility and audit trails, in addition to functionality and
'total control'.  I have been given a series of Excel graphs as
'challenges' by these colleagues, including one with this axis
feature.  This is the only thing that has beaten me so far.


Stephen
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