Greetings
I think that to differentiate the inner plot region from the outer plot region, you may need to specify both "fcolor" and "icolor", for example
. graph bar (mean) tempjuly tempjan, over(region) plotregion(fcolor(red) icolor(green))
When I run this, the (inner) plot region is green with a red frame around it (the outer plot region). However, if I remove "icolor", e.g.
. graph bar (mean) tempjuly tempjan, over(region) plotregion(fcolor(red))
Then the entire plot region (inner and outer) is red. Checking with "scatter" I observed the same behavior. Also, since I believe there have been updates in this behavior since Version 8.0, not having run an "update all" recently could lead to different results.
Hope this helps,
Michael Mitchell
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