You have inserted a space between the option "title" and its argument. Try:
. twoway (scatter i21_65m year), title("Death")
that is, no space between "title" and "(".
Stata will sometimes forgive spaces, other times not. It can also give
some interesting error messages in such circumstances.
Try:
sysuse auto
twoway scatter price mpg, title("hello")
twoway scatter price mpg, title ("hello") // note space after title
"hello invalid name
invalid syntax
r(198);
twoway (scatter price mpg), title ("hello") // note parentheses around
scatter... and space after title
unmatched quote
r(198);
No doubt an expert parse-ologist would find entertainment here, but for the
time being be careful with spaces.
Phil
At 10:51 AM 10/02/2004 +1100, you wrote:
Dear stata-listers,
I'm not understanding the syntax for setting graph titles in Stata 8.2.
The command
. twoway (scatter i21_65m year), title ("Death")
returns the error message
unmatched quote
There's an easy work-around:
. twoway (scatter i21_65m year), title ("Death"")
creates the correct graph! But this is hardly intuitive ... any comments?
My data is just as follows:
. list
+----------------+
| year i21_65m |
|----------------|
1. | 1988 789 |
2. | 1989 789 |
3. | 1990 771 |
4. | 1991 729 |
5. | 1992 743 |
|----------------|
6. | 1993 726 |
7. | 1994 652 |
8. | 1995 603 |
9. | 1996 549 |
10. | 1997 505 |
|----------------|
11. | 1998 503 |
12. | 1999 481 |
+----------------+
Thanks for any help with this.
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James Harris
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
The Australian National University
CANBERRA ACT 0200
Australia
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