Graph bar, change the bar color

[Joshua Smith]

Hi Everyone,

I would like to ask an unusual question. I need to change the color to Stata bars using graph bar, but in a different ways that what all other posts have asks. What I need is changing the colors of selected bars, despite the over options I use. Here's my command:

graph bar frac_, over(v1, sort(n) label(angle(45) labsize(small))) over(ind, sort(v2)) nofill ///
bar(1, fcolor(ebblue%70) fintensity(inten100) lcolor(ebblue%70) lwidth(vthin)) bar(2, fcolor(ebblue%70) fintensity(inten100) lcolor(ebblue%70) lwidth(vthin))///
plotregion(lcolor(white)) ytitle("Percentage", size(3)) blabel(bar, format(%9.1f) color(black)) graphregion(color(white))

The option asyvars doesn't work because it changes all the labels and remove the order I would like to use.

Thanks a lot,

Josh

[Hemanshu Kumar]

Data example, please

[Joshua Smith]

Thanks Hemanshu, here it is:

ID var1 var2 sample1 A 1 sample2 B 1 sample3 C 1 sample4 C 1 sample5 A 2 sample6 B 3 sample7 C 2 sample8 A 4 sample9 A 4 sample10 A 5 With the following code, I generated the attached graph.
graph bar (count), over(var1) over(var2)

What I'm trying to get here is to color the groups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in different colors, but the bars must be in the same color... e.g. A,B,C from group 1 in blue, A,B,C from group 2 in green, A,B,C from group 3 in yellow, A,B,C from group 4 in brown and A,B,C from group 5 in black...

[Nick Cox]

Please see

https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#realnames (?)

https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#version

https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#stata 12.2

This may help otherwise

clear 
input str9 ID str1 var1 var2 
sample1 A 1 
sample2 B 1 
sample3 C 1 
sample4 C 1 
sample5 A 2 
sample6 B 3 
sample7 C 2 
sample8 A 4 
sample9 A 4 
sample10 A 5
end 

preserve 

contract var1 var2 , zero 

separate _freq, by(var2)

graph bar _freq?, over(var1) over(var2) yla(0/2) nofill ///
bar(1, color(blue)) bar(2, color(green)) bar(3, color(yellow))  bar(4, color(brown))  bar(5, color(black)) ///
legend(off) ytitle(Frequency)

restore