scale of x axis

[Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti]

Dear All,

I have the following data:

* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex
clear
input int Year double GlobalExport
1950    150.4164
1951    164.7418
1952    171.9045
1953    186.2299
1954    200.5552
1955    222.0433
1956    236.3687
1957    257.8567
1958    250.6941
1959    279.3448
1960    315.1582
1961    329.4836
1962    350.9717
1963    393.9478
1964    436.9239
1965    465.5747
1966    501.3881
1967    530.0389
1968    587.3403
1969    658.9672
1970    716.2687
1971    766.4075
1972    830.8717
1973    931.1493
1974    981.2881
1975    909.6613
1976    1017.102
1977    1060.078
1978    1110.217
1979    1167.518
1980    1194.795
1981    1187.985
1982    1161.493
1983    1191.692
1984    1291.794
1985     1325.38
1986    1378.396
1987    1454.207
1988    1577.815
1989    1678.795
1990    1744.268
1991    1808.806
1992    1895.629
1993    1979.036
1994    2163.087
1995    2323.155
1996    2441.636
1997    2688.241
1998      2811.9
1999    2941.248
2000    3258.903
2001     3252.12
2002    3364.484
2003    3552.919
2004     3898.92
2005    4154.229
2006    4511.168
2007    4803.425
2008    4914.792
2009    4320.877
2010    4928.651
2011  4557.16635
2012 4418.939503
2013 4444.857037
2014 4427.578681
end

I would like to change the scale of the x axis from 1945 to 2015. I tried the following:

twoway(line GlobalExport Year, color(black)), legend(off) title({bf: Figure 9.6}: Rise of globalization (1950-2008), size(medsmall) justification(left) position(11) ring(100)) ytitle(Export, size(small)) xtitle(Time, size(small)) xscale(r(1945(10)2010))

However it does not work. Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks for any help you may provide.

Dario

[Nick Cox]

You are confusing or rather conflating the syntax of xscale() and that of xlabel(). (The same distinction would apply to any other pair of axis scale and axis label options.)

Trivially as well 2010 is here a slip for 2015.

This seems closer to your intent.

twoway(line GlobalExport Year, color(black)), legend(off) title({bf: Figure 9.6}: Rise of globalization (1950-2008), size(medsmall) justification(left) position(11) ring(100)) ytitle(Export, size(small)) xtitle(Time, size(small)) xlabel(1945(10)2015)

[Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti]

Nick Cox Thanks a lot!