option label() not allowed in heatplot

[john dattoma]

Hi everyone,

I am having an issue that seems to work fine in Stata 16 on one of my machines, but when I switch over to a separate machine I'm getting the option label() not allowed when I run a heatplot. I thought maybe the option was discontinued in Stata 17, so I switched back to Stata 16.1, and I'm still getting the same error. I'm running this code.

pwcorr q2 q1a q1b q1c q1d q1e q1f q1g q1h q1i q1j q1k q1l q1m q1n q1o q1p q1q [aw=weight], sig
matrix C = r(C)
matrix sig = r(sig)
heatplot C, values(label(sig)) generate

Indeed, when I pull up the help file on my Mac the option for values(label) exists to substitute the significance values. It says,

"As seen above, option values() can be used to display the values of the
correlations with the color fields. It is also possible to print
alternative information collected from a second matrix using suboption
label(). In the following example, p-values are printed:

. pwcorr price mpg trunk weight length turn foreign, sig
. matrix C = r(C)
. matrix sig = r(sig)
. heatplot C, values(label(sig) format(%9.3f)) color(hcl diverging,
intensity(.6)) legend(off) aspectratio(1)

But on my help file on the Windows machine, I don't see this as an option. Does anyone know if this option has been discontinued recently? If so, is there a way to incorporate this? I'm trying to produce a heatplot with a correlation matrix with significance stars.

Thanks.

[Nick Cox]

heatplot is from SSC and written for Stata 14.2 up.

which heatplot

should give the same result, ideally

*! version 1.1.1  24aug2021  Ben Jann

on each machine you use. The change from Stata 16 to Stata 17 is unlikely to be material here.

[john dattoma]

Nick Cox That is what was so strange to me. I'm probably using an outdated version in Stata 17. I'll try to update and see what happens. Thanks.

[Nick Cox]

The example in #1 is reproducible given the dataset implied

sysuse auto, clear 
 
pwcorr price mpg trunk weight length turn foreign, sig
matrix C = r(C)
matrix sig = r(sig)
heatplot C, values(label(sig) format(%9.3f)) color(hcl diverging, intensity(.6)) legend(off) aspectratio(1)

and I just ran that without problems in Stata


Stata/MP 17.0 for Windows (64-bit x86-64)
Revision 15 Feb 2022

using heatplot from SSC as just updated.