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Charlotta Menchaca

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Aug 4, 2024, 7:37:41 PM8/4/24

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Justsigned up to thank gandhi for updating the thread after figuring out what was wrong with mlabel -- I had exactly the same problem where mdir/mlabel refuses to work and prints misleading information, and gandhi's update in #5 helped me get past this. Thanks!

How markers are rendered is determined by the employed graph scheme. Use marker options to change the default look. The marker options can be specified for each series separately, but also as global options (in which case they are taken as defaults for the individual series):

The overall style of markers and their confidence intervals can also be changed using the pstyle() option (pstyles are named composite styles provided by the graph scheme). By default, coefplot uses the first pstyle for the first series, the second pstyle for the second series, and so on. Here is an example in which the styles are changed:

Stata graphs do not support background colors for marker labels, which makes labels unreadable if you place them on top of the markers using mlabposition(0). However, here is a workaround. The trick is to add a second "confidence interval" that is a bar of fixed width:

Instead of physically adding the coordinates of the bars as matrix e(box) to the estimation set, the coordinates can also be generated on the fly by the transform() option. In the example below, a second set of confidence limits is requested (the specified level does not matter as long as its unique) that is then transformed to b2 with the help of transform() (also see Accessing internal temporary variables):

A bit unfortunate might be that due to the box the exact location of a coefficient can no longer be seen in the graph. Here is an example where an additional vertical spike is added to mark the point estimates.

The default for the mlabel option is to display the values of the point estimates as marker labels. To display p-values instead of point estimates, for example, you could type mlabel(@pval) (see Accessing internal temporary variables for available @-variables). Furthermore, a string expression may be provided as an argument to mlabel() to construct more complicated marker labels, as in the following example:

As seen above, marker labels will always be placed at the values of the point estimates. In some situations, however, it may be preferable to place the labels, say, at the upper end of the confidence intervals. coefplot has no option to change the anchor of marker labels, but here is a workaround using the addplot() option with internal temporary variables:

The approach works well if you just want to print the values of the estimates. For more complex labels, first create the labels employing the usual mlabel() option, but suppress their display by setting the color to none. The created labels will be stored in temporary variable @mlbl. You can then use this variable in the addplot() option:

Nino Landler asked on Statalist whether it is possible to print the values of the estimates on the right axis of a plot. This is not directly possible, but you can write a little program to call coefplot without drawing a graph and collect the labels. The labels can then be included as axis labels in a second call to coefplot. The program could look about as follows:

The idea is that you specify the full coefplot syntax already when collecting the labels to ensure that the collected labels are consistent with the graph you want to create. The labels are returned in s(mlbl); the corresponding coefplot command is returned in two parts in s(plots) and s(options). To draw the graph including the labels you can type:

The syntax of the final coefplot command is quite complicated because a secondary axis has to be created. An idea could be to write a little wrapper so that you can produce many plots without having to repeat these options. Here is a corresponding program:

The coefplot_mlbl program defined above does not make a difference between the models in the plot. If you want to style the labels differently depending on model, you need to modify the program so that it returns multiple lists of labels. Here is an example:

@se is an internal variable provided by coefplot. See Accessing internal temporary variables in the help file for the list of available internal variables. Additional internal variables can be made available through the aux() option. Here is an example in which the markers for group means are scaled by the number of observations in each group:

The sizes of the marker can be compared within series, that is, within series they are proportional to the inverse of the standard errors. Between series, however, this relation does not hold. Here is a picture in which the same information is displayed while applying weight() to all markers at once (see the help file for information on options asequation and swapnames):

As is evident, to be comparable, the sizes of the markers for domestic have to be made a bit larger. A trick to make marker sizes comparable across series is to include all data in each series, so that the same information is used to determine the marker sizes, but then suppress the extra estimates by setting them to missing using the transform() option:

Mlabel displays the current volume label, if present. Ifnew_label is not given, and if neither the c nor thes options are set, it prompts the user for a new volume label.To delete an existing volume label, press return at the prompt.

Reasonable care is taken to create a valid MS-DOS volume label. If aninvalid label is specified, mlabel changes the label (anddisplays the new label if the verbose mode is set). Mlabelreturns 0 on success or 1 on failure.

I'm trying to add a marker label (mlabel) to a graph based on a variable, but it only labels the first of the years in the graph and not the others. Is there a way to have it label all the years? My reproducible example below shows the results I'm currently getting, and I'd like to have all the lines in the graph labeled by using mlabel.

What's the easiest way to rename (change the volume label of) a fat16 volume (e.g. on a USB drive) from linux? It seems like mlabel from the mtools package is meant to do this, but the documentation is not geared to rapid assimilation.

My initial confusion stemmed from the fact that the -i option is not documented in the mlabel manpage. The full version of the manual doesn't mention this option specifically for mlabel; I'm guessing it's a general option that applies to all of the mtools utils, but haven't dug around in the manual to check for the existence of documentation to that effect.

However, I'm finding that setting a 10-character volume label ("KATAROWSKI") doesn't work: there is some extra stuff appended to the end of the label that translates, under linux to the character, and under Windows showed up as a ?.

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Note of warningThis manpage has been automatically generated from mtoolss texinfodocumentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See theend of this man page for details.DescriptionThe mlabel command adds a volume label to a disk. Its syntax is:mlabel [-vcsn] [-N serial] drive:[new_label]Mlabel displays the current volume label, if present. Ifnew_label is not given, and if neither the c nor thes options are set, it prompts the user for a new volume label.To delete an existing volume label, press return at the prompt.Reasonable care is taken to create a valid MS-DOS volume label. If aninvalid label is specified, mlabel changes the label (anddisplays the new label if the verbose mode is set). Mlabelreturns 0 on success or 1 on failure.Mlabel supports the following options:TagDescriptionc Clears an existing label, without prompting the users Shows the existing label, without prompting the user.n Assigns a new (random) serial number to the diskN serial Sets the supplied serial number. The serial number should be supplied asan 8 digit hexadecimal number, without spacesSee AlsoMtools texinfo docViewing the texi docThis manpage has been automatically generated from mtoolss texinfodocumentation. However, this process is only approximative, and someitems, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in thistranslation process. Indeed, these items have no appropriaterepresentation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information hasbeen translated into the manpage version. Thus I strongly advise you touse the original texinfo doc. See the end of this manpage forinstructions how to view the texinfo doc.TagDescription* To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the followingcommands: ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi* To generate a html copy, run: ./configure; make htmlA premade html can be found at:oo also at:oo * To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs info mode), run: ./configure; make infoThe texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. Indeed, inthe info version certain examples are difficult to read due to thequoting conventions used in info.