st: xline

["Eric G. Wruck" <ewruck@econalytics.com>]

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?

Thanks,

Eric


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