You need to tell it to change bar 1 (all of the bars are "bar 1" because you are using -ascategory-), so add:
bar(1, bcolor(red*.5) blc(red*.8))
(Although I have to say red*.5 is one of the most hideous colours known to mankind... what's wrong with blue?)
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Margo Schlanger [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 27 May 2005 02:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Bar color in complex bar graph
I feel kind of dumb for this one, but I've worked on it and come up only
with a very tedious workaround. I'm hoping someone knows a better way
for next time . . .
I'm running a fairly complicated bar chart:
graph bar (asis) portion1-portion12 if year > 1983, ylabel(0(.1).2,
grid) ascategory by(dummy year, [other options])
the variables (portion1-portion12) name 12 variables, each of which is
labeled.
So here's my question. It defaults to blue, and I need it to be red.
(In particular, bcolor(red*.5) blc(red*.8)). But I can't figure out how
to get the color to work as syntax). No matter where I put it, I get an
error message. (I can do this by omitting the ascategory, and then
doing it bar by bar, but then I have to label the bar widths, too, and I
figure there's got to be a better way.)
Any help is much appreciated.
Margo
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