Alternate colors on bar chart

[Sabrina Solanki]

Hi,

I am currently using the following code to generate the bar chart attached:

graph hbar (count) count if sum > 5, over(college_name, label(angle(horizontal) labsize(tiny))) ///
ylabel(0(100)3200) ///
yscale(off) ///
blabel(bar, size(tiny)) ///
title("Teacher Credentialing Programs") ///
subtitle("N = 10,620 Unique Applicants") ///
note(N = 68 programs with > 5 applicants. $datetag)

I would like to alternate the bar colors: Bar 1 blue, bar 2 yellow, bar 3 blue, bar 4 yellow, etc.
Any suggestions on how to go about doing this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[Andrew Musau]

You need to specify the option asyvars so that Stata can recognize that each bar is unique. To recreate a similar graph, additional options are also necessary. Here I just include what you need to add

 over(college_name, gap(30) label(angle(horizontal) labsize(tiny))) asyvars showyvars leg(off)

This will automatically specify colors. To assign your own, further add

bar(1, bcolor(red)) bar(2, bcolor(blue))...

[Sabrina Solanki]

This works. Thank you, Andrew!!