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Re: st: mylabels axis label alignment with comma format
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Re: st: mylabels axis label alignment with comma format
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Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:44:16 +0100
Try %2.0fc
Nick
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On 13 Sep 2013, at 19:04, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> You can see the extra spaces in the second one. When the range of the
> x-axis gets large, the gap becomes much more pronounced:
>
> . mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels)
> 0 "1" 5.703782474656201 "300" 8.699514748210191 "6000" 9.798127036878302 "18000"
>
> . mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%6.0fc)
> 0 " 1" 5.703782474656201 " 300" 8.699514748210191 " 6,000"
> 9.798127036878302 "18,000"
>
> DVM
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can you show us the contents of the local macro? Is -mylabels- producing a
>> crazy macro or -kdensity- being awkward? (I can't experiment with Stata
>> right now.)
>>
>>
>> On 13 Sep 2013 at 03:39, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am having trouble getting small values to align correctly when using
>>> the comma format and Nicholas Cox's -mylabels-. The first kernel
>>> density plot below looks great, but when I try to format the axis
>>> labels, the numbers on the left drift too far to the right.
>>>
>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>> replace price = price/100 if price <5000
>>> gen lnp=ln(price)
>>> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels)
>>> kdensity lnp, xlabel(`labels')
>>> mylabels 1 300 6000 18000, myscale(ln(@)) local(labels) format(%6.0fc)
>>> kdensity lnp, xlabel(`labels')
>>>
>>>
>>> DVM
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