Stata Graph

[Philmon Amasalu]

Hi everyone,

I am using Stata 15.1. Whenever I get a Stata graph, it is not connected at the origin. I followed this recommendation https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...-to-start-at-0, it did not help me, probably I am unable to modify the message in it.
For example, using the Auto data in Stata:

tw ///
  (scatter weight length , mc(gray)) ///
  (lpoly weight length , lc(red)) ///
  (scatter weight length ///
    if rep78 == 2 ///
    , mlab(make) mlabsize(vsmall) mlabc(black) mc(black)), yscale(r(0)) ylab(#6)

My questions are: how can I get the y and x axes connected at the origin?
And why is there a large distance between the beginning of the data points in the graph and the x-axis? Can we correct it too?

In case, how it looks in my eyes, I did attach a picture of the graph.
I would appreciate tips and advices. Thank you.

[Andrew Musau]

That is a feature of your scheme which I presume is cleanplots from https://www.trentonmize.com/software/cleanplots.

And why is there a large distance between the beginning of the data points in the graph and the x-axis? Can we correct it too?

In your code, you ask that Stata begins the y axis at 0, so you get what you ask for. Stata does not allow truncation of data, so you can specify a larger starting value if it does not truncate the data.

sysuse auto, clear
set scheme cleanplots
tw ///
  (scatter weight length , mc(gray)) ///
  (lpoly weight length , lc(red)) ///
  (scatter weight length ///
    if rep78 == 2 ///
    , mlab(make) mlabsize(vsmall) mlabc(black) ///
    mc(black)), yscale(r(1000 .)) ylab(#6) plotregion(margin(0))

[Philmon Amasalu]

Dear Andrew, thank you very much. Yes, I was using

cleanplots

. Both schemes produce the same graphs unless your recommendations are included. Thank you once again for your helpful advices.