Neon tests a new and more generic scheme generator script.
Black schemes have a notch darker background (its not pure black). They collection has been renamed from tsg_schemes to schemepack to make it more generic and easier to remember.
#Graph bar stata install
: MAJOR UPDATE: schemes released on SSC ( ssc install schemepack, replace).: A new scheme based on Taylor Swift's Red album colors added.: A new scheme based on Ukraine's flag colors.
If the version is 2019 or higher (Stata 16+), then all the schemes should run fine. The white and black schemes should be fine. If it shows 2017, then don't use gg schemes. If you are using Stata 15, then the gg schemes won't work due to comptability issues. ⚠️ A bug for Stata 15 was reported (June 2021). Not all graphs types have been tested and fine tuned. Please report errors or bugs or suggestions to improve the schemes. To install SCHEMEPACK, you can either get them directly from SSC ( preferred):
#Graph bar stata how to
Here you can learn how to program your own schemes. Link to the Medium article that describes these schemes: Stata graph schemes by The Stata Guide. The graph folder contains the high resolution sample figures.The dofile contains the script to test the code.The colors have been passed on to the scheme using Ben Jann's colorpalette package (Jann 2018). The core white scheme is based on the Cleanplots theme (Mize 2018) that itself is derived from the plainplots theme (Bischof 2017). These schemes are procedurally generated where the colors and other information is introduced in the schemes using scripts. As the names suggest, these are the background colors, where the last one is inspired by the ggplot2 scheme in R. Most of the schemes have been programmed in three flavors: white, black, and gg (grey). More at this thread.In this repository are various ready-to-use Stata schemes. As the syntax and graph example show, multidot defaults to a dot chart but can be recast to a horizontal bar chart. Multidot from SSC is an attempt to address all these problems for showing two or more outcomes on different scales for a set of categories. (Using a legend instead often works badly too.) In the case of countries there is another work-around of using standard two or three-letter abbreviations, which are fairly widely understood.įor these and other reasons, horizontal bar charts are often preferable. The names you want to show as axis labels are often long enough to cause a mess, and although there are work-arounds for this (vertical or slanted labelling abbreviation small fonts) none is attractive. graph bar makes this easier by allowing sorting on any variable otherwise it requires some work to get to a better solution.ī. The default ordering of names alphabetically is rarely helpful or desirable. In practice, (vertical) bar charts for data like yours are often problematic:Ī. Graph bar supports a string variable for the categorical axis, but you'd have to work out yourself some way of showing very different quantities on the y axis. But then you would still need to work at the graph to ensure that the bars for larger quantities don't occlude those for smaller quantities, for example by offsetting bars. In the absence of a data example, as requested, a silly toy example must serve.Īs the error message is already telling you, twoway bar requires a numeric variable for the x axis, so you would need to produce one using say encode.