Change legend position in distplot (from SSC) when using 'over'?

[Anna Stubbendorff]

How do I change the legend position in distplot (from SSC) when using the option 'over'?


distplot Ferritin, over(no_meat) ylabel(0(.1)1) xlabel(0(10)100) by(BMI_cat_fewer) legend(pos(6))

[Nick Cox]

distplot is to be cited please as coming from the Stata Journal. (My fault if you like that I don't maintain the SSC version assiduously.)

More interestingly, the main issue with your syntax is using by() as well as over().

We can't see your data or your graph, but you might get nearer to what you want with something like

distplot Ferritin, over(no_meat) ylabel(0(.1)1) xlabel(0(10)100) by(BMI_cat_fewer, legend(pos(6)))

[Anna Stubbendorff]

I am so sorry about that. I am still new and learning to use the terms correctly. Thank you for correcting me!

This is my full code:
*By and over.
distplot Ferritin if Ferritin < 100, over(Food_last_year_no_meat) ylabel(0(.1)1) xlabel(0(10)100) by(BMI_cat_fewer) legend(pos(6))

And this is my graph. Adding the comma before legend does not produce any output. Is there any way to work around it?

[Nick Cox]

The call to legend() must be inside the call to by(). See #2 again.