histogram colors

[abdelilah arredouani]

Hi everyone,
i hope you are all keeping safe. I have a simple question. i am creating a histogram plot for a variable X by gender. when i go to graph editor and change the color of the bars for females for example it does it also fo Males as well.
any suggestion for a code to solve this simple issue.

Thanks in advance


Stata 15.1 Mac

[Andrew Musau]

sysuse auto, clear
tw (hist price if foreign, by(foreign, leg(off)) ///
bcolor(red%70)) (hist price if !foreign, ///
by(foreign) bcolor(blue%70))

Res.:

[abdelilah arredouani]

Many thanks Andrew. Can I show frequency instead of density?

[Andrew Musau]

Yes, you have the -frequency- option for that

tw (hist price if foreign, by(foreign, leg(off)) ///
freq bcolor(red%70)) (hist price if !foreign, ///
by(foreign) freq bcolor(blue%70))

[abdelilah arredouani]

Excellent thanks