Vertical Labels

[Yeshwin Ayappa]

Hello,
How do I get the x-axis labels or in this case YearMonth to be vertical?

label var naics_21 "Sector"
twoway (line TotMonth date, by(naics_21)) (scatter income date, by(naics_21)), legend(label(1 "Total Monthly Hours") label(2 "Total Weekly Income"))

Thank you,
Yeshwin

[Jared Greathouse]

I think it's

xlab(,angle(45))

But I'm not at my computer so please don't quote me!

[Nick Cox]

A short answer is to use xlabel(, ang(v)) but I think a better answer is to follow procedure suggested in https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0030

You have monthly data for 2019-2022. Here is some technique:

clear
set obs 48
gen date = ym(2018, 12) + _n 
gen foo = 42 

line foo date, xla(713.5 "2019" 725.5 "2020" 737.5 "2021" 749.5 "2022", tlength(*0.5) tlc(none)) xtic(707.5(12)755.5, tlength(*4)) xtitle("")

Stuff you can remove as obvious and not needed:

date

Graphs by sector

Plotting your two variables in quite different units in the same space raises various questions, but here I focus on the question you do ask.

[Yeshwin Ayappa]

I think it's

xlab(,angle(45))

But I'm not at my computer so please don't quote me!

Hello Jared, thank you so much for your input
I was able to use

xlabel(, ang(v))

to get it to work!

[Yeshwin Ayappa]

A short answer is to use xlabel(, ang(v)) but I think a better answer is to follow procedure suggested in https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0030

You have monthly data for 2019-2022. Here is some technique:

clear
set obs 48
gen date = ym(2018, 12) + _n
gen foo = 42

line foo date, xla(713.5 "2019" 725.5 "2020" 737.5 "2021" 749.5 "2022", tlength(*0.5) tlc(none)) xtic(707.5(12)755.5, tlength(*4)) xtitle("")

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Stuff you can remove as obvious and not needed:

date

Graphs by sector

Plotting your two variables in quite different units in the same space raises various questions, but here I focus on the question you do ask.

Thank you so much for your help Nick! I was able to get it to work. I also plotted separate graphs for the 2 variables. I was just focused on trying to get my code to work, and ended up not realising the error there.