-mylabels- updated on SSC

[Nick Cox]

Thanks to Kit Baum as usual, mylabels has been updated on SSC.

mylabels and its sibling myticks generate axis labels and ticks on specified scales.

The update follows a recent thread

http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...trailing-zeros

in which a user wanted both leading zeros and a "clean" format without trailing zeros.

The new option clean specifies a minimal format eliding trailing zeros and decimal points (whether periods (stops) or commas). This option is most often used together with format(). Thus by itself format(%03.2f) would render 0(0.25)1 as 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 but clean reduces it to 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1. The help gives more details.

A perhaps bigger deal is that the code and help file have been rewritten. The syntax and examples should, I hope, now seem clearer.

Stata 8 is required. To install or update use ssc or adoupdate.

[Sutirtha Bagchi]

Could you please show us exactly how to combine format with clean? I have tried the below without any success:

format(%6.2f) clean
format(%6.2f, clean)

The full code for what I am trying to do is (in the context of plotting a graph of the underlying raw data) (in Stata/SE 14.2):

program define lojack
args y ylabel title1 ytitle1 filename

twoway scatter `y' ydiff if ydiff >=-8 & ydiff<=8 & state == "GA", connect(l) msize(*1.2) clwidth(*2) ylabel(`ylabel',format(%6.2f)) xlabel(-8(2)8) /*
*/ saving(`filename', replace) title("`title1'", size(*1.0)) xtitle("Years since the adoption of withholding for the personal income tax", size(*1.2)) ytitle("`ytitle1'")

end

lojack arciiba "25 (25) 150" "State personal income tax revenues" "Real per capita income tax revenue" w2lj_rcii

The reason for trying to use clean is to have the zero before a decimal point but not have the trailing zeros. Thus, having 25 and 0.50 rather than 25.00 and 0.50 or 25 and .5.
Thank you,
Sutirtha

[Nick Cox]

Sorry, but I don't follow what you're asking.

You don't give a data example but your example program is being fed 25(25)150 to use as y axis labels. twoway will be totally happy with that and you don't need mylabels at all.

That aside, clean is not a suboption, but a separate option, in the syntax, as the help explains. This example is copied from the help:

. mylabels 0.005(0.005)0.025, format(%04.3f) clean local(labels)
.005 "0.005" .01 "0.01" .015 "0.015" .02 "0.02" .025 "0.025"