Not a Two-way plot type error

[Waewnet Sukkasem]

Hi, I tried to do a scatter plot and my data is like the table below. It's 194 countries/rows

Country	Region	Code	TaxRevenueasaofGDP	LnGDPpercapita

However, I tried many ways for the code and it always shows that "twoway (scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Country=="Burkina Faso", msymbol(diamond) msize(large) mcolor(lightblue) mlabel(Country) mlabs(vsmall) mlabc(lavender))//
/ / is not a twoway plot type
r(198)"

I don't know why it's not a twoway plot type. Can you please give me an advice?


This is the code I use.

twoway (scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Country=="Burkina Faso", msymbol(diamond) msize(large) mcolor(lightblue) mlabel(Country) mlabs(vsmall) mlabc(lavender))//
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="Sub-Saharan Africa" & Country!="Burkina Faso", mlabel(Code) msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(pink))//
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region!="Sub-Saharan Africa", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(green))//
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="Latin America & Caribbean", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(blue))//
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="Middle East & North Africa", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(orange))//
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="North America", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(red))//
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="South Asia", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(yellow))//
(lfit TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita)
ytitle("Tax Revenue as a percent GDP") ///
xtitle("Ln GDP per capita") leg(lab(1 "Burkina Faso") lab(2 "Sub-Saharan Africa") size(vsmall) c(3) pos(6)) graphregion(fcolor(white))


Many thanks in advance.

[Andrew Musau]

Add a space + "///" for a line break. Run the code in a do file.

twoway (scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Country=="Burkina Faso", msymbol(diamond) msize(large) ///
mcolor(lightblue) mlabel(Country) mlabs(vsmall) mlabc(lavender))(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if ///
Region=="Sub-Saharan Africa" & Country!="Burkina Faso", mlabel(Code) msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(pink)) ///
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region!="Sub-Saharan Africa", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(green)) ///
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="Latin America & Caribbean", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(blue)) ///
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="Middle East & North Africa", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(orange)) ///
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="North America", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(red)) ///
(scatter TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita if Region=="South Asia", msymbol(circle) msize(medium) mcolor(yellow))
(lfit TaxRevenueasaofGDP LnGDPpercapita) ytitle("Tax Revenue as a percent GDP") xtitle("Ln GDP per capita") ///
leg(lab(1 "Burkina Faso") lab(2 "Sub-Saharan Africa") size(vsmall) c(3) pos(6)) graphregion(fcolor(white))

[Waewnet Sukkasem]

Thank you so much Andrew Musau. It works!!!!!! Much appreciated your advice.