Another technique is to use marker labels on the last value in a time series.
webuse grunfeld
xtline invest, overlay ysc(log)
The legend is a problem. It takes up too much space.
xtline invest, overlay ysc(log) ///
addplot(scatter invest year if year == 1954, ms(i) mla(company)
legend(off) mlabcolor(black)) ///
yla(1000 100 10 1, ang(h))
The marker labels by default are at clock position 3 pm, exactly right
for this problem.
With more work, you could get different colours. Naturally, this is
best for short text labels only.
See also
Cox, N.J. 2011. Stata tip 104: Added text and title options. Stata
Journal 11(4): 632-633
Nick
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, William Buchanan
<william@williambuchanan.net> wrote:
You might want to look at the added-text/text-box options. It might
take a little bit to get the placement just right, but that would be a
way to do it.
On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Max.Livingston@ny.frb.org wrote:
>> When creating graphs (using a do-file, not the Graph Editor), is there a
>> way to label the data series in the plot area, so the name of the series
>> would appear near the line that is plotted? Here is an example:
>> http://libertystreeteconomics.typepad.com/.a/6a01348793456c970c017d3dfcdf73970c-popup
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