Thanks, both. Very helpful.
I also noticed that the graph editor also allows you to edit each bar separately, which is a helpful feature if you have a limited number of bars.
Thank you
Shehzad
>________________________________
> From: Kieran McCaul <kieran.mccaul@uwa.edu.au>
>To: "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 1:04
>Subject: RE: st: different color for each bar in a bar graph
>
>...
>this line:
>local call `call' || bar _freq`j' rep78 , bcolor(gs`col')
>should be:
>local call `call' bar _freq`j' rep78 , bcolor(gs`col') ||
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
>Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 2:29 AM
>To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>Subject: Re: st: different color for each bar in a bar graph
>
>Yes. Just call -twoway bar- repeatedly with each colour you want.
>
>Example:
>
>sysuse auto, clear
>contract rep78
>separate _freq, by(rep78)
>
>forval j = 1/5 {
> local col = 3 * `j'
> local call `call' || bar _freq`j' rep78 , bcolor(gs`col')
>}
>
>twoway `call', ytitle(Frequency)
>
>See also
>
>Cox, N.J. 2011. Highlighting specific bars. Stata Journal 11: 473-477.
>
>On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Shehzad Ali <drshehzad_ali@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to specify a different bar color for each bar or sets of bars in a bar graph?
>> twoway (bar var1 var2)
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