Format Bar Chart: Different Colors for Groups

[John Hanser]

Hi guys,

total Stata newbie here.
I am currently trying to format a bar chart, which is grouped by two categories "bm" and "me" which both have values from 1 to 5.
To distinguish better within the 2nd grouping, it would be nice to have different colors for each group value (1-5).
Since all bars (all 25) have the same variable ("ret"), I was only able to change the color for all of them, but not individually or for a specific group value.

Any suggestions for a desperate beginner?

To create the bar chart I used the following code:

graph bar (mean) ret, over(bm) over(me)

Thanks in advance!

[Andrew Musau]

 
 graph bar (mean) ret, over(bm) over(me) asyvars

[Nick Cox]

See also

SJ-11-3 gr0049 . . . . . . . . . . Stata tip 102: Highlighting specific bars
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/11 SJ 11(3):474--477
tip on highlighting a subset of observations in a bar or
dot chart

which is accessible http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.h...iclenum=gr0049

[John Hanser]

Thank you very much guys!