Re: st: RE: x axis forest plot

[Vincent de Jonge <v.dejonge@erasmusmc.nl>]

one of the commands I used was:

metan a b c d, label(namevar=Author) by(HQ) random rr xlabel(0,1,5) force

with this error:
invalid label specifier, :  0 "1" . "0" 0 "1" 1.6094379124341 "5":

or
metan a b c d, label(namevar=Author) by(HQ) random rr xlabel(0,1,5)
invalid label specifier, :  0 "1" . "0" 0 "1" 1.6094379124341 "5":

is that of any help?

on 07-10-2010 14:48 Nick Cox said the following:
> -metan- is a user-written command (SSC). 
>
> It usually helps and never hurts if you show exact code that you tried. 
>
> In general with a graphics command you can not omit data points from a graph by truncating the axis scale. You must omit data explicitly e.g. by using -if-. 
>
> -xaxis()- and -xlabel()- are options, not commands. 
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> Vincent de Jonge
>
> I did a meta-analysis on count data using the db 
> metan command and plotted a forest plot. However, to improve readability 
> I would like to limit the x axis. This just won't work. I don't know how 
> to do it. Tried commands like xaxis, xlabel, etc. but always get an 
> error. Hope someone can get me the answer.
>
>
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