Am Mittwoch, den 28.01.2009, 16:06 +0530 schrieb Ashim Kapoor:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a question. My dataset is like this.
>
> Matchscore order ymonth
> 200 1 1990m1
> 280 2 1990m1
> 290 3 1995m7
> 300 4 2000m3
> 251 5 2000m4
>
> This is just a small part of the dataset, but it kind of gives the
> message that ymonths are not evenly spaced and can be repeated ( this
> is the reason I would not graph this by ymonth). So I want to graph
> this by order but I want the corresponding values of ymonth displayed.
>
> I want to do something like : -
> twoway ( line matchscore order ) , xlabel ( using ymonth in place of
> order for the xlabel )
>
> There is a clumsy way of pulling out the order values and ymonth
> values and making a numlist but I was hoping there is something better
> than this because I have to automate this process.
I would use the -axis()- function of -egenmore-:
. egen newvar = axis(order), label(ymonth)
. graph tw line matchscore axis, xlab(, valuelabel)
Note: egenmore is user written. Install it with
. ssc install egenmore
Uli
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