Re: st: Bar colors in graph

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

This is documented. See

Cox, N.J. 2011. Stata tip 102: Highlighting specific bars. Stata
Journal 11(3): 474-477.

Example code:

separate price, by(rep78 == 3)

graph hbar (mean) price0 (mean) price1 , over(rep78) bar(1,
color(blue)) bar(2, color(yellow)) ///
nofill legend(off) b2title(`: var label price') l1title(`: var label rep78')


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Richard Ohrvall
<richard.ohrvall@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am creating some bar graphs where I would like fill some bars with a
> different color based on the values for some other variable (or in
> some cases the variable I use to create the groups). Eg. if I create
> the following graph
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> graph hbar (mean) price, over(rep78, sort(price) descending)
>
> I would like the bars to be blue except where rep78==3 in which case I
> would like them to be yellow. I assume there is some way to do this in
> some way, but I haven't found it. I could do it manually in the graph
> editor, but that is not a viable solution in  this case.
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