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Re: st: Escaping dollar sign in graphs


From   "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Escaping dollar sign in graphs
Date   Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:32:12 +0100 (BST)

Partick Joly wrote:

> This problem came up on the list a few weeks but I would like to ask Stata
> whether something can be done about this issue. Specifically, the problem
> is
> that, given a have variable whose label contains a dollar sign say
>
> . la var xrus "\$US per \$CA"
>
> and trying to plot it as either
>
> . twoway line xrus year
> . twoway line xrus year, ytitle("\$US per \$CA")
>
> causes the currency units to vanish from the y-axis title, leaving only "
> per " behind.

You might not like this solution, but how about using "USD" instead of the
$ symbol in the meantime?

CLIVE NICHOLAS        |t: 0(044)191 222 5969
Politics              |e: [email protected]
Newcastle University  |http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps
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