Labelling boxes

[Ben Littenberg]

I have a box plot with a box by categories (over) where each category is a unique date. The x axis is labeled with 5-digit Stata dates (eg. "23362") rather than the formatted date ("18dec2023"). How do I get the labels to appear in %td format? Stata 18.

graph box sbp , over(date, label(format(%tdMon-DD)))

Thanks

Ben Littenberg

[Nick Cox]

graph box is expecting categories for one axis, so value labels will work.

levelsof date, local(dates)

foreach d of local dates { 
    label def mylabels `d' "`: di %tdMon-DD `d''", add 
}

label val date mylabels 

graph box sbp, over(date)

[Ben Littenberg]

Thanks a million!