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st: RE: xscale range with negative upper bound


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: xscale range with negative upper bound
Date   Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:04:15 -0000

A very clumsy work-around: 

Suppose your variables with negative values is -neg-. 

gen pos = -neg 
hist pos , xsc(reverse ra(10,60)) 
xla(10 "-10" 20 "-20" 30 "-30" 40 "-40" 50 "-50" 60 "-60")


Nick 
[email protected] 

maartenbuis
 
> The upper bound is ignored, when I make a histogram of a variable
> containing only negative values and I want to expand the x axis, but
> the upper bound is still negative. In the example below I expected
> the x-axis to run from -60 to -10, but it runs only from -60 to -30.
> What am I doing wrong here?
> 
> ***example***
> sysuse auto
> gen minturn = -turn
> hist minturn, xscale(range(-60 -10))
>   //x axis runs from -60 to -30 not -60 to -10
> 

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