Eric,
one way would be to wrap the "date literal convenience function" d()
in a local macro and to return its result to the xline. This could
look like this:
scatter y1 x1, xlabel(`=d(2jan2006)'(100)`=d(2jan2007)', format(%d))
xline(`=d(2apr2006)')
I think this is equivalent to the following
local startdate =d(2jan2006)
local enddate =d(2jan2007)
local markdate =d(2apr2006)
scatter y1 x1, xlabel(`startdate'(100)`enddate', format(%d)) xline(`markdate')
hth
Sebastian
On 1/31/07, Eric G. Wruck <[email protected]> wrote:
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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