Setting barwidth and outergap in staked hbar

[Edith Lancaster]

I could not find a way to adjust width out the bar and "outergap" (the gap between the edge and the first and the last bar in hbar graph. Example is below. I believe I have specified "outergap" as per manual, but it does not change anything. Also, I do not know how to change the width of the bars.

Thank you!

use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/educ99gdp, clear

graph hbar (asis) public private, over(country, sort(total) descending) stack ///
outergap(.5) ///
title( "Spending on tertiary education as % of GDP, 1999", span pos(11) ) subtitle(" ")

[Andrew Musau]

We ask for a reproducible example, as this better illustrates your problem and helps others who may have a similar problem in the future (refer to the FAQs) .

I believe I have specified "outergap" as per manual, but it does not change anything.

Not exactly, look at the manual again.

Also, I do not know how to change the width of the bars.

Use the option gap() within the over() option. Here is an example illustrating both.

sysuse auto
*DEFAULT
graph hbar (asis) headroom length if inrange(_n, 4, 10) , ///
over(make, sort(total) descending) stack  bar(1, bcolor(blue%50)) ///
bar(2, bcolor(blue%25)) scheme(s1color) 
gr save g1

*WITH OPTIONS
graph hbar (asis) headroom length if inrange(_n, 4, 10) , ///
over(make, sort(total) descending gap(30)) stack  bar(1, bcolor(blue%50)) ///
bar(2, bcolor(blue%25)) scheme(s1color) outergap(*1.8)
gr save g2

*COMBINED
gr combine g1.gph g2.gph, title( "Buick models: Comparison of headroom and length") scheme(s1color)

Result: