Change color of boxplots (without asyvars) by keeping xlabels

[Dusan Petrovic]

Hello Statalisters,

I am generating boxplots and trying to have different colors. When using "asyvars" option, this does the trick, however, asyvars also automatically erases the labels of boxes on x-axis and generates the legend, which I do not want.

My purpose is to have boxes of different colors by keeping the x-axis label.

I have tried the following :

sysuse auto
graph box price, over(foreign) box(2,color(red))

/*
graph box price, over(foreign) box(2,color(red)) asyvars
*This does the trick but a legend is generated and I cannot add new labels on x axis for the boxes


*/

I have checked the help and previous posts, but failed to find a solution to this problem. I thought that maybe "xlabel()" would be a solution, but apparently x*() options are inactive for boxplots.

Thank you for your kind help

[Andrew Musau]

graph box price, over(foreign) box(2,color(red)) asyvars showyvars leg(off)

[Dusan Petrovic]

That's exactly what I needed, thanks Andrew!

[Bruce McDougall]

That worked well for me! Thanks Andrew