Connecting labels from X axis (scatter plot) to a String Variable

[Marcelo Podesta]

Good afternoon,

I'm trying to recreate this graph:

However, I'm having problems changing my variable X from from ID (in this case a countryID I created) to the actual name of the countries.

encode Country, gen (CountryID2)
twoway scatter CR CountryID2, xlabel (1(1)51, angle(90) valuelabel)

The problem that occurs is: "parentheses do not balance". I also tried writing each ID by hand (example: xlabel(1 "Argentina" 2 "Brazil"...)

Thank you!

[Rich Goldstein]

the problem is the space following "xlabel" - just move the parenthesis so it directly follows the "l" of "xlabel" without a space

[Marcelo Podesta]

I cannot believe that was the problem! I was so worried with the code that made a simple mistake like that!
Thank you very much!

[Nick Cox]

That solved, I would suggest

sorting the countries by their means

showing country on the vertical axis to avoid axis labels on a slant

dropping the connecting line, which has no meaning

making the mean symbols more visible by offsetting from their associated values.