Hi Ulrich,
I did
tostring (ymonth), format(%tm) replace force
before using your method to convert it to a string to use the method
as you suggested.
Thank you,
Ashim.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ashim Kapoor asked
>> > I have a question. My dataset is like this.
>> >
>> > Matchscore order ymonth
>> > 200 1 1990m1
>> > 280 2 1990m1
>> > 290 3 1995m7
>> > 300 4 2000m3
>> > 251 5 2000m4
>> >
>> > This is just a small part of the dataset, but it kind of gives the
>> > message that ymonths are not evenly spaced and can be repeated ( this
>> > is the reason I would not graph this by ymonth). So I want to graph
>> > this by order but I want the corresponding values of ymonth displayed.
>> >
>> > I want to do something like : -
>> > twoway ( line matchscore order ) , xlabel ( using ymonth in place of
>> > order for the xlabel )
>> >
>> > There is a clumsy way of pulling out the order values and ymonth
>> > values and making a numlist but I was hoping there is something better
>> > than this because I have to automate this process.
>
> And I answered:
>
>> I would use the -axis()- function of -egenmore-:
>>
>> . egen newvar = axis(order), label(ymonth)
>> . graph tw line matchscore axis, xlab(, valuelabel)
>>
>> Note: egenmore is user written. Install it with
>>
>> . ssc install egenmore
>
> This should be only used if ymonth is either a string variable or a
> labeled numeric variable. It seems that Ashim's ymonth variable is an
> elapsed time variable. In this case you should use Roger's approach.
>
> Uli
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