Skewed labels (categorical axis)

[R Allan Reese]

This may be Windows rather than Stata. I drew boxplots split by date batches. To avoid overlapping I angled the batch labels: "graph box yar, over(batch, angle(20)))" . When I did copy and paste from the graph window into a document, the labels were at an angle but not along the axis; they were in a line diagonally across the graph! Making them smaller and at angle(0), the graph copied correctly. My preferred solution was to save the graph as jpg which inserted into the document with angled labels correctly placed.

For the record, Stata 16.1 pasting into LibreOffice 25.2. Any comments welcome.

[Frode Andre]

In Stata 16 you can use putdocx to export the graphs into word and then transfer to Libre Office document (note, I think it should be ", label(angle(20))"):

sysuse bplong, clear

putdocx clear
putdocx begin

graph box bp, over(when, label(angle(20)))
graph export "one.jpg", replace as(jpg)

graph box bp, over(sex, label(angle(20)))
graph export "two.jpg", replace as(jpg)

putdocx paragraph

putdocx image ("one.jpg")
putdocx image ("two.jpg")

putdocx paragraph

putdocx save BoxplotToWord, replace

[R Allan Reese]

Thanks for correction - i overdid "simplifying". It was over(batch, label(labsize(*.7) angle(30))). I don't think putdocx helps, as the saved jpg just inserts into LibreOffice correctly.

[R Allan Reese]

Posted my comment twice - no delete function?

[Nick Cox]

R Allan Reese Please see https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#closure

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