Reseting Graphics Settings

[Al Adams]

Hi, I set the cleanplots graphics scheme to permanent, but I want to reset the my Stata program so that there is no permanent graphics scheme. When I try to reset it using "set scheme s2color, perm", it does change the color scheme back to the standard Stata scheme. However, it seems doing so creates permanent settings that cannot be altered. For example, below, I provide a sample dataset that graphs a twoway scatterplot. Despite requesting that markers be red, very large, and labeled by group, you can see that the markers are blue, default-sized (medium?), and unlabeled.

clear 
input id time group var 
123 1 0 10
123 2 0 20
123 3 0 30
234 1 0 5
234 2 0 15
234 3 0 25
345 1 1 15
345 2 1 25
345 3 1 35
456 1 1 15
456 2 1 20
456 3 1 25
end

set scheme cleanplots, perm

twoway scatter var time || lfit var time, mlabel(group) mcolor(blue)

set scheme s2color, perm

twoway scatter var time || lfit var time, mlabel(group) mcolor(red) msize(vlarge)

Here's the graph that is produced by the last line of code:

Essentially, I am asking: 1) How do I revert Stata graphics setting back to the defaul, where I can alter the settings of my graphs without necessarily specifying another scheme? and 2) how do I make Stata's default graphic settings the default when I start a new session?

[Nick Cox]

This is nothing to do with schemes. By the time you set marker label colour, and so forth, the scatter plot has in effect already been drawn. The lfit command ignores your options as irrelevant, but you can't reach back and change the scatter plot, except by specifying the options in the right place.

 
 twoway scatter var time, mlabel(group) mcolor(red) msize(vlarge) || lfit var time

[Al Adams]

Sorry for the late reply. That worked. Thanks, Nick!