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Re: st: number of dates in x axis


From   Maria Ana Vitorino <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: number of dates in x axis
Date   Tue, 24 May 2011 14:52:24 -0400

Thanks. My code is a little more complicated than the example so I didn't want to burden you with it. But I understand your position. I think the issue has to do with the formatting of the date variable...I can't seem to get it to work.
This is what I'm getting:

. generate date1=date(date,"MY")

. format date1 %tm

. list date1 date in 1

     +------------------+
     |  date1      date |
     |------------------|
  1. | 3469m3   Aug2009 |
     +------------------+

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Ana


On May 24, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Nick Cox wrote:

% sacrificial line.

Nick
[email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox
Sent: 24 May 2011 19:16
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: st: number of dates in x axis

Please: I want to see the _exact_ code you typed. No commentary, no paraphrase, no speculation. If you want to debug your code yourself, feel free to do so. If you want me to try to debug your code, I am happy to try, but that means your code, not your thoughts about what might be wrong with your code.

Nick
[email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Maria Ana Vitorino
Sent: 24 May 2011 19:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: number of dates in x axis

I tried your code again (this time by pasting it into the do-file
editor instead into the command window) and it worked. But my version
is not working (I still get the invalid label specifier message).
Could it be because my time variable has gaps? Also, how can one setup
the "11" in your for loop without having to make mental calculations
regarding the number of months?
Thanks for the help!
Ana


On May 24, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Nick Cox wrote:

Yes. Show me the _exact_ code you typed.

Nick
[email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of Maria Ana Vitorino
Sent: 24 May 2011 18:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: number of dates in x axis

Thanks Nick.
I tried running your example but I got the error message "invalid
label specifier, :  15341 15400 15461 ..."
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Ana

On May 24, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Nick Cox wrote:

There is relevant material at

Stata 7: How can I get "nice" date labels on a graph?

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/graphics/nicedate.html

StataCorp have added this annotation:

"Note: This FAQ is relevant for users of releases prior to Stata 8.
For Stata 8 see update from 12 September 2003."

In fact the techniques there do remain useful for some problems.

Here's an example with different data. Here I decide that I want
labels every 2 months from 1 January 2002 to 1 January 2003. I loop
over the dates and put them in a bag, namely a local macro.

sysuse xtline1
xtset person day

forval i = 1(2)11 {
	local thisdate = mdy(`i', 1, 2002)
	local mydates `mydates' `thisdate'
}

local thisdate = mdy(1,1,2003)
local mydates `mydates' `thisdate'

xtline calories, overlay xlabel(`mydates', format(%d_m_Y) ang(v))

See also

SJ-7-4 gr0030 . Stata tip 55: Better axis labeling for time points/
intervals
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
N. J. Cox
     Q4/07   SJ 7(4):590--592                                 (no
commands)
     tip on labeling graphs for time points and time intervals


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Maria Ana Vitorino
<[email protected]> wrote:

I have the following data:


 +------------------------+
 | Person   Weight      Date    |
 |------------------------|
1. |  Name1       50      17988  |
2. |  Name1       55      18110  |
3. |  Name1       50      18141  |
4. |  Name1       45      18171  |
5. |    ...        .      . |
 |------------------------|
6. |  Name2       85      18110 |
7. |  Name2       88      18171 |
8. |  Name3       68      17988 |
9. |    ...        .                       . |
10. |     ..        .      .                 |
 |------------------------|
11. |  NameN        .               . |
 +------------------------+

The labels for the date variables are the months' names (plus year)
(e.g.
"jan2006", "feb2007", etc)

If I do something like:

xtline Weight , overlay  i(Person) t(Date) xlab(, valuelabel)

The month names show up on the xaxis BUT only every 6 months or so.
How can
I control the number of "ticks" (AND month names ) that show up on
the
x-axis? (suppose I want a tick every 2 months or even every month)


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