Stata not drawing graphs

[Nilanjana Sarkar]

Hi, I have time series data and am trying to draw a graph of each series. But the graphs show up with the axes but no lines. I have drawn such graphs successfully beforeAnybody know what's going on?

I have tsset my data.

Codes I have tried:
. tsline myvariable
And:
. graph twoway line myvariable dates
. graph display graph
Also:
. twoway (tsline myvariable)

Thanks,
Nilanjana

[Friedrich Huebler]

Can you share an excerpt from your data so that others can try to reproduce your problem? See section 12 in the Statalist FAQ.

[Nilanjana Sarkar]

Thanks, Friedrich. I am using Stata 12.1. I have attached a file with three series from my file and also 'dates'. The data are quarterly. These are just few of the series I can't draw graphs of . Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Nick Cox]

In the dataset you posted, the variable dates is always missing. So, no useful graph is possible with that variable.

Also,

tsset dates

is legal but not useful given that. You should have received warning messages when you tsset your data.

[Nilanjana Sarkar]

Thanks. That was the problem (although I did not get any error message).
Nilanjana

[Nick Cox]

Your command was legal so far as Stata is concerned. It did nothing useful as far as you are concerned. That's a big difference.

I can do any number of silly things that are legal, such as

 
count if 2 == 3

More to the point, it's not an error to get a graph with no data and very occasionally that might even be useful (as a backdrop to other graphs).