RE: st: What determines ytitle distance from graph

[DE SOUZA Eric <eric.de_souza@coleurope.eu>]

Further information:
When I replace lqrt by abs(lqrt), the problem disappears and I do not need to yscale.

Eric


Eric de Souza
College of Europe
Brugge (Bruges), Belgium
http://www.coleurope.eu



Thanks.
graph twoway scatter lqrt rla, ylabel(, angle(horizontal)) yscale(titlegap(*-30)) gave something reasonable. It required some experimentation.

Eric


Eric de Souza
College of Europe
Brugge (Bruges), Belgium
http://www.coleurope.eu



You can tune using -ysc(, titlegap())- (or -xsc()- as the case may be).

Nick

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:37 AM, DE SOUZA Eric <eric.de_souza@coleurope.eu> wrote:
> When I change the ylabel angle to horizontal for a specific variable, the  distance between the yaxis and the ytitle is quite large.
>
> . sum lqrt
>
>    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
> -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
>        lqrt |       106    -.538891    .2215944  -.8609112  -.1334978
>
> . graph twoway scatter lqrt rla
>                NO PROBLEM
>
> . graph twoway scatter lqrt rla, ylabel(, angle(horizontal))
>                DISTANCE OF LABEL lqrt FROM GRAPH IS LARGE
>
> . graph twoway scatter rla lqrt, ylabel(, angle(horizontal))
>                Y X CHANGED: NO PROBLEM
>
> . clear
>
> . webuse auto
> (1978 Automobile Data)
>
> . graph twoway scatter price mpg, ylabel(, angle(horizontal))
>        NO PROBLEM
>
> . gen price2 = price/1000
>        Y SCALED TO SEE IF THIS COULD BE THE REASON, BUT:
>
> . graph twoway scatter price2 mpg, ylabel(, angle(horizontal))
>                NO PROBLEM

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