Re: st: Bar colors in graph

[Richard Ohrvall <richard.ohrvall@gmail.com>]

Thank you for prompt and very helpful reply. This was exactly what I
was looking for. Richard

2012/8/21 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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