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John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 222

Edit the x-axis ticks in Stata

Without using the graph editor, I would like to know if the there is a way (code-wise) to customize with string characters the tick labels in your output graph. Say, for instance, I have four ticks in my x-axis (the following years): 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. If I wanted to add a character such as "#" in each year of the x-axis (e.g. each year would look something like "2010#" in the x-axis), would it be possible to do it without using the graph editor?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3409

Answers (1)

Nick Cox
Nick Cox

Reputation: 37208

Following @Roberto Ferrer's helpful comment, here is his second method based on downloading mylabels using ssc inst mylabels: 

. webuse grunfeld, clear

. su y

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
        year |       200      1944.5    5.780751       1935       1954

. mylabels 1935(4)1955, suffix(#) myscale(@) local(lbl)
1935 "1935#" 1939 "1939#" 1943 "1943#" 1947 "1947#" 1951 "1951#" 1955 "1955#"

. xtline invest, overlay xla(`lbl')

It's not especially time- or effort-saving interactively, but could be built into programs or do-files.

Upvotes: 1

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