Manual text on plot for margincontplot

[Preetesh Kantak]

Hi, I'd like to insert text onto a plot using plotopts(twoway_options) feature in mcp. E.g.

sysuse auto, clear
gen inv_price = 1/price
logit foreign inv_price
sum price
range w1 r(min) r(max) 20
gen inv_w1 = 1/w1
mcp price (inv_price), var1(w1 (inv_w1)) show ///
plot(text(0.35 5000 "hello", place(e)))

This code produces the error "invalid point, hello". Does anyone know why this isn't working?

Thanks.

[Cyrus Levy]

You can try the code below. As you'll notice, in the last line, I changed the plot option's content to generate what you want. I believe this is an unintentional programming bug, so you can report this to Patrick Royston, the author of the program. The bug can be fixed easily in the ado file so that your code can run without errors.

program drop _all
sysuse auto, clear
gen inv_price = 1/price
logit foreign inv_price
sum price
range w1 r(min) r(max) 20
gen inv_w1 = 1/w1
mcp price (inv_price), var1(w1 (inv_w1)) show plot(`"text(0.35 5000 "hello")"')

[Preetesh Kantak]

Thanks much. Will report.