line graph connect

[Zariab Hossain]

Dear Stata users

I am trying to do a line graph. Here is my code:

line LOM_breadth_cw_off mean_breadth_cw_off event_time if inrange(event_time,-5,-1) | inrange(event_time,1,5), lp(dash_dot) lc(blue red) ///
    by(l2h, note("") title("Co-movement of own vs peers' decision share for migrant CWs" "across offices with varying intensities", size(medsmall))) ///
    xline(0, lpattern(dash) lw(vthin) lcolor(black)) ylabel(.4(.05)0.6) name(b, replace) ytitle("Share", size(small)) xlabel(-5(1)5) ///
    xtitle("Event time", size(small)) legend(size(small))

Here is the graph:

However, I do not want the line from -1 to 1 to be connected. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance.

Zariab Hossain
Uppsala University

[Nick Cox]

There is no data example here to allow testing, but I would start with

line LOM_breadth_cw_off mean_breadth_cw_off event_time if inrange(event_time,-5,-1) , lp(dash_dot) lc(blue red) ///
|| line LOM_breadth_cw_off mean_breadth_cw_off event_time if inrange(event_time,1,5), lp(dash_dot) lc(blue red) ///
by(l2h, note("") title("Co-movement of own vs peers' decision share for migrant CWs" "across offices with varying intensities", size(medsmall))) ///
xline(0, lpattern(dash) lw(vthin) lcolor(black)) ylabel(.4(.05)0.6) name(b, replace) ytitle("Share", size(small)) xlabel(-5(1)5) ///
    xtitle("Event time", size(small)) legend(size(small))

[Zariab Hossain]

Thanks a lot Nick. It worked perfectly.