Scheme economist

[Tunga Kantarci]

set scheme economist

for graphs puts the y axis and its label on the right hand side of the graph. Is there a way to put them on the left hand side? So everything stays the same except the position of the y axis and its label.

[Tunga Kantarci]

Answer: specify yscale(alt) in the options of the graph.

[Maarten Buis]

If you want to use this style often and you don't want to type that option all the time, then you can create a new scheme which is just a copy of the economist but with the y-axis on the left. To do that you create a new file with the following two lines:

#include economist
yesno alt_yaxes no

Say you want to call this new style economistleft, then you save it as scheme-economistleft.scheme at a place where Stata can find it, see help sysdir .

For more on creating your own schemes see help scheme files and this talk by Vince Wiggins at the 2006 UK Stata Users' Group meeting: https://www.stata.com/meeting/12uk/a...s.html#wiggins