Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: st: mylabels axis label alignment with comma format
From
[email protected]
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: mylabels axis label alignment with comma format
Date
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:20:13 +0100
I'll look at the code to try to establish where the problem lies, my program, Stata or an awkward request that can't be satisfied.
Nick
[email protected]
On 14 Sep 2013, at 00:50, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> That fixes the alignment, but does not display the commas:
>
> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%2.0fc)
> 0 " 1" 5.703782474656201 "300" 8.699514748210191 "6000"
> 9.798127036878302 "18000"
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:44 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Try %2.0fc
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On 13 Sep 2013, at 19:04, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Nick,
>>>
>>> You can see the extra spaces in the second one. When the range of the
>>> x-axis gets large, the gap becomes much more pronounced:
>>>
>>> . mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels)
>>> 0 "1" 5.703782474656201 "300" 8.699514748210191 "6000" 9.798127036878302 "18000"
>>>
>>> . mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%6.0fc)
>>> 0 " 1" 5.703782474656201 " 300" 8.699514748210191 " 6,000"
>>> 9.798127036878302 "18,000"
>>>
>>> DVM
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Can you show us the contents of the local macro? Is -mylabels- producing a
>>>> crazy macro or -kdensity- being awkward? (I can't experiment with Stata
>>>> right now.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13 Sep 2013 at 03:39, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am having trouble getting small values to align correctly when using
>>>>> the comma format and Nicholas Cox's -mylabels-. The first kernel
>>>>> density plot below looks great, but when I try to format the axis
>>>>> labels, the numbers on the left drift too far to the right.
>>>>>
>>>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>>>> replace price = price/100 if price <5000
>>>>> gen lnp=ln(price)
>>>>> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels)
>>>>> kdensity lnp, xlabel(`labels')
>>>>> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%6.0fc)
>>>>> kdensity lnp, xlabel(`labels')
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> DVM
>>>>> *
>>>>> * For searches and help try:
>>>>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>>>>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
>>>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> * For searches and help try:
>>>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>>>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
>>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>> *
>>> * For searches and help try:
>>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>
>> *
>> * For searches and help try:
>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/