Produce a line graph with no xlabel and x minor ticks

[Andreia Leite]

Dear all,

I am trying to produce a graph with major and minor ticks on the x-axis but no labels on this axis (this will be used to combine with other graphs). My command looks like this:

line cum_del_GBS_05 cum_del_GBS_10 delay_sys_week if n_records_allr<=100&delay_sys<=182, ///
xlabel(none) xtick(0 (5) 25) xmtick(##5) xtitle(" ", margin(small)) ylabel(0 (0.2) 1) ///
ytitle("Cumulative proportion", margin(small)) title("GBS") ///
legend(label(1 "2005-2009") label(2 "2010-2015"))

When I run it I get the graph attached - no label, major ticks but no minor ticks. I have tried to go through the help but I can't really understand why this is happening. Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Andreia Leite

[Nick Cox]

I'd guess that Stata's guess at where the minor ticks should go is exactly where you have major ticks, So they are there, but occluded by your major ticks.

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[wbuchanan]

You are requesting the same number of minor ticks as there are major ticks at first glance. For the minor ticks, try using a similar range specifier like:

line cum_del_GBS_05 cum_del_GBS_10 delay_sys_week if n_records_allr<=100&delay_sys<=182, ///
xlabel(none) xtick(0 (5) 25) xmtick(0(1)25) xtitle(" ", margin(small)) ylabel(0 (0.2) 1) ///
ytitle("Cumulative proportion", margin(small)) title("GBS") ///
legend(label(1 "2005-2009") label(2 "2010-2015"))

If there are the same number of major and minor ticks they'll overlap in a way that you won't necessarily be able to see easily.

[Andreia Leite]

Many thanks for your replies (it worked just fine with the new range specifier) and I am sorry about the photo.