xline and text on top of twoway area plot

[David Tsu]

I use

twoway (area y1 y2 year)

to create a plot and want to include a dashed vertical line on top of the plot. However, the xline command is always covered by the area plot. Is there a way to keep both the xline and text on top?

[Andrew Musau]

Use twoway scatteri with the option -recast(line)- or twoway dropline in place of -xline-. There are plenty of examples in the forum that address this problem if you search.

[Nick Cox]

xline() is an option, not a command, but more importantly for you this is the intended behaviour. You need another way to show a line through another twoway subcommand. Here's one of several techniques:

webuse grunfeld, clear
line invest year if company == 1
line invest year if company == 1 || scatteri 0 1939 1500 1939, recast(line) legend(off) ytitle("`: var label invest'")