st: Re: xline

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Use in-line macro evaluation:

xline(`=d(5jan2007)')

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric G. Wruck" <ewruck@econalytics.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: st: xline



> I am working on a graph & want to insert vertical lines for various 
> dates, time being the x-axis.  It seems xline will not accept 
> expressions or variable names, as I have tried, for example:
>
> xline(d(5jan2007))
>
> or
>
> xline(scan1)
>
> where scan1 was previously defined in the .do file with
>
> gen scan1 = d(5jan2007)
>
> The only way I get the thing to work is to have xline(17171), but I 
> don't want to have to look up all the dates by hand.  Does someone 
> know an easier way to handle this?
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