st: Boxplot - color coded + cat labels | documenting work round

["Allan Reese (Cefas)" <allan.reese@cefas.co.uk>]

I drew a standard boxplot with two levels of category and thought it would be cute in color.  I like to avoid separate legends when possible.  After considerable struggle I got there, and *then* RTFM where there is a table of the differences between box with multiple yvars and box with over() groups.  It states "multiple yvars : different color & legend", "over() groups : no colors & axis labels". 

So here's the solution, and a suggestion that when multiple yvars have been reclassified "ascat", you ought to be able to apply the over() subopts!  I'll leave this with my variables, which are length (of animal) compared over sex and age.  The lengths were in one var (to use over() ) and have been split into vars for each sex.

graph box flen mlen,  over( sex, relabel(1 "F" 2 "M") ) nofill legend(off)/// 
                      box( 2, col(pink) )                       box(1, col(blue)) ///
                      marker( 2, ms(oh) mcol(pink) msize(*.8))  marker( 1, ms(th) mcol(blue) msize(*.8)) ///
                      over( age, lab( labsize(*.8) ) gap(*2) ) /// 
                      ylab(5(5)45, angle(0) )   b1(Age)  

Allan



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