
Title | Changing the format of data for your axes | |
Author | Jeremy Wernow, StataCorp |
To change the format of a number (or date) on an axis of a graph, you must first change the format of the variable itself.
For example:
. set obs 10
obs was 0, now it is 10
. gen x = uniform() . gen y = uniform()
(These commands will generate 10 random values for variables x and y. The values generated will be between 0 and 1.)
. list x y 1. .1369841 .2551499 2. .6432207 .0445188 3. .5578017 .4241557 4. .6047949 .8983462 5. .684176 .5219247 6. .1086679 .8414094 7. .6184582 .2110077 8. .0610638 .5644092 9. .5552388 .2648021 10. .8714491 .9477426 . describe Contains data obs: 10 vars: 2 size: 120 (99.9% of memory free) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------ x float %9.0g y float %9.0g ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sorted by: Note: dataset has changed since last saved . graph y x . format x y %6.2f . list x y 1. 0.14 0.26 2. 0.64 0.04 3. 0.56 0.42 4. 0.60 0.90 5. 0.68 0.52 6. 0.11 0.84 7. 0.62 0.21 8. 0.06 0.56 9. 0.56 0.26 10. 0.87 0.95 . describe Contains data obs: 10 vars: 2 size: 120 (99.9% of memory free) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------ x float %6.2f y float %6.2f ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sorted by: Note: dataset has changed since last saved . graph y x
Note: The changes in the display format are now reflected on the graph axes.