Re-organize bar graph variables

[Alex Melown]

Hi everyone, I have a problem that's wrinkling my brain. Is it possible to group all the bars of the same color and swap the variables in the x-axis with those in the legend? So that each cluster of bars on the x-axis are my facility domains (v1-4: Facility Capacity, Learning Environment, Infrastructure, Self Assessment) and the coloring is sorted by Hospital # (1-6)?

graph bar (mean) v1 (mean) v2 (mean) v3 (mean) v4,  over(Hospital)

Do I have to switch the way my variables are set up or is there a way to recode the graph command? Thanks!

[Nick Cox]

No data example here, but you can run this script to see some technique that may help. You need to install statplot from SSC before you can use it.

clear
set scheme s1color
set seed 31459265
set obs 100
forval j = 1/4 {
    gen v`j' = runiformint(1,5)
}

gen hospital = ceil(_n/20)

graph bar (mean) v1-v4 , over(hospital) name(G1, replace)

ssc inst statplot
statplot v1-v4, over(hospital) name(G2, replace) recast(bar) asyvars