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Re: st: number of dates in x axis


From   Maria Ana Vitorino <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: number of dates in x axis
Date   Tue, 24 May 2011 13:28:43 -0400

Thanks Nick.
I tried running your example but I got the error message "invalid label specifier, : 15341 15400 15461 ..."
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Ana

On May 24, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Nick Cox wrote:

There is relevant material at

Stata 7: How can I get "nice" date labels on a graph?

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/graphics/nicedate.html

StataCorp have added this annotation:

"Note: This FAQ is relevant for users of releases prior to Stata 8.
For Stata 8 see update from 12 September 2003."

In fact the techniques there do remain useful for some problems.

Here's an example with different data. Here I decide that I want
labels every 2 months from 1 January 2002 to 1 January 2003. I loop
over the dates and put them in a bag, namely a local macro.

sysuse xtline1
xtset person day

forval i = 1(2)11 {
	local thisdate = mdy(`i', 1, 2002)
	local mydates `mydates' `thisdate'
}

local thisdate = mdy(1,1,2003)
local mydates `mydates' `thisdate'

xtline calories, overlay xlabel(`mydates', format(%d_m_Y) ang(v))

See also

SJ-7-4 gr0030 . Stata tip 55: Better axis labeling for time points/ intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox Q4/07 SJ 7(4):590--592 (no commands)
       tip on labeling graphs for time points and time intervals


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Maria Ana Vitorino
<[email protected]> wrote:

I have the following data:


   +------------------------+
   | Person   Weight      Date    |
   |------------------------|
 1. |  Name1       50      17988  |
 2. |  Name1       55      18110  |
 3. |  Name1       50      18141  |
 4. |  Name1       45      18171  |
 5. |    ...        .      . |
   |------------------------|
 6. |  Name2       85      18110 |
 7. |  Name2       88      18171 |
 8. |  Name3       68      17988 |
 9. |    ...        .                       . |
10. |     ..        .      .                 |
   |------------------------|
11. |  NameN        .               . |
   +------------------------+

The labels for the date variables are the months' names (plus year) (e.g.
"jan2006", "feb2007", etc)

If I do something like:

xtline Weight , overlay  i(Person) t(Date) xlab(, valuelabel)

The month names show up on the xaxis BUT only every 6 months or so. How can I control the number of "ticks" (AND month names ) that show up on the
x-axis? (suppose I want a tick every 2 months or even every month)


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