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Re: st: plot multiple vertical lines according to specific variable values


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: plot multiple vertical lines according to specific variable values
Date   Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:33:06 +0000

levelsof date if special_date, local(levels)

line X date, sort xli(`levels')

Nick

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Francesco <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a (simple?) question :
>
> Lets suppose I have the following dataset structure
>
> Date               X             special_date
> 01/01/2008      10           0
> 03/01/2008      12           0
> 05/01/2008      13           1
> 07/01/2008      11           0
> 10/01/2008      11           1
> 12/01/2008      14           0
> ...
>
> I would like to plot X against the date, so I type
>
> -twoway line X date, sort
>
> However I would also like to add a vertical line on my graph, EACH
> time the special_date variable is true (that is =1)
> I dont know how to do that. I know that there is the option -xline for
> creating vertical lines at specific dates values, but how to use it
> here (if appropriate) ?

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