Re: st: RE: plotting time series

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

On a second reading I think I understood better. This may help:

clear
input str8 (France              Italy)
"22/02/09"        "14/06/09
"22/03/09"       "12/7/09
"19/04/09"        "9/8/09
"17/05/09"                "6/9/09"
"12/7/09"       "4/10/09"
"09/08/09"        "01/11/09"
"6/9/09"         "29/11/09"
"4/10/09"       "27/12/09"
"01/11/09"       "31/01/10"
"29/11/09"        "28/02/10"
"27/12/09"        "28/03/10"
"31/01/10"        "1/5/10"
end
gen dFrance = date(France, "DM20Y")
gen dItaly = date(Italy, "DM20Y")
gen dF2 = dFrance - dFrance[_n-1]
gen dI2 = dItaly - dItaly[_n-1]
gen t2 = (dFr + dFr[_n-1]) / 2
gen t1 = (dIt + dIt[_n-1]) / 2
gen two = 2
gen one = 1
scatter two dFrance || scatter one dItaly || ///
scatter two t2, ms(none) mla(dF2) mlabpos(12) || ///
scatter one t1 , ms(none) mla(dI2) mlabpos(12) ///
yla(1 "Italy" 2 "France", ang(h)) xla(, format(%td)) legend(off)


On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I don't think I have a good understanding of what you want
> here. In any case, adding lines can't add to information on spacing
> that is not already shown on the graph.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, stef salvez <loggyedy@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> thank you NIck. It worked
>>
>> Let me explained what I did in order to tell you what I eventually need
>>
>> The MS excel file is the following
>>
>> have these sequence of dates in an excel file. The structure of the
>> excel file is
>> France              Italy                        ......
>> 22/02/09               14/06/09
>>  22/03/09       12/7/2009
>> 19/04/09        9/8/2009
>> 17/05/09                6/9/2009
>> 12/7/2009       4/10/2009
>>  09/08/09        01/11/09
>> 6/9/2009                29/11/09
>> 4/10/2009       27/12/09
>>  01/11/09       31/01/10
>> 29/11/09              28/02/10
>> 27/12/09              28/03/10
>> 31/01/10
>>
>>
>>  The I apply the commands
>>
>> clear
>> set trace off
>> set more off
>> set mem 120m
>> cd d:\
>> insheet using "dates0.csv"
>> gen edate1 = date(v1, "DMY")
>> gen edate2 = date(v2, "DMY")
>>
>> format edate1  %
>> format edate2  %
>> stripplot edate1 edate2
>>
>> and I get the desired plot. Yet the problem is that I also want to add
>> on the top of each of these 2 lines the distance ( measured in days)
>> between these successive dates for each country.  And mark each
>> distance with a symbol like { or [. Is is possible to extend the
>> stripplot command somehow to achieve the desired resuls?
>> thanks again
>>
>>
>>  Is it possible to add on the top of each of these 2 lines the
>> distance ( measured in days) between these successive dates for each
>> country. I would be grateful to you if you could also mark each
>> distance with a symbol like { or [. I know it is a big challenge to
>> you but for me is an impossible task
>>
>> thanks again
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/1/12, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Have a look at -stripplot- from SSC.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>>>
>>> stef salvez
>>>
>>> I have a panel data across countries and individuals. For each country
>>>  I have a sequence of dates
>>> For France for example
>>> 22/02/09
>>> 22/03/09
>>> 19/04/09
>>> 17/05/09
>>> 12/07/09
>>> 09/08/09
>>> 06/09/09
>>> 04/10/09
>>> 01/11/09
>>> 29/11/09
>>> 27/12/09
>>> 31/01/10
>>>
>>> For Italy
>>> 14/06/09
>>> 12/07/09
>>> 09/08/09
>>> 06/09/09
>>> 04/10/09
>>> 01/11/09
>>> 29/11/09
>>> 27/12/09
>>> 31/01/10
>>> 28/02/10
>>> 28/03/10
>>>
>>> And I want to "plot" (in one graph) these sequences of dates in the
>>> sense that I want to have a"visual" contact of each of the behaviour
>>> of  the series of dates because as you can see I do not have the same
>>> start date and   end date and the next date is not always every 28
>>> days. So I have a jump in some cases. I would like to visualize these
>>> characteristics-differences between the two  series of  dates by
>>> making a plot.

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