Format axis to display date as "Apr-2018", etc

[Edith Lancaster]

I want to graph monthly time series, where I want the x axis to have verbal month and numeric year, like "Apr-2018", etc. I have set tsset, but I can not figure out how to achieve that format on x axis. The best I can do is 2012m4. Is there a way to get verbal month? Thank you!

[Clyde Schechter]

graph_command yvar month_var, xlabel(, format(%tmMon-CCYY))

where month_var is a Stata internal format monthly date variable.

[Edith Lancaster]

Thank you! It worked!

[Edith Lancaster]

Is there any way to have this show up as two lines? Month on the first and year on second?

[Andrew Musau]

Can you provide some example data using dataex?

[Nick Cox]

https://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf....iclenum=gr0020