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Re: Bar Chart Options Question

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  • Subject: [mg54614] Re: [mg54581] Bar Chart Options Question
  • From: "Christoph Lhotka" <lhotka at astro.univie.ac.at>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:21:16 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:12:04 -0500 (EST)
 Namrata Khemka <namrata.khemka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I am trying to do the following with bar chart.
> 
> t = {1,2,3,4,0,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13}
> BarChart[t]
> 
> However, I would like 2 bars to be of a particular color. By this I
> mean, for the bars with value 1 and 2, it could be red, for bars with
> value 3 and 4 it could be green. and so on.
> 
> One of the other things that I would like to do is, label the bars. I
> would like to have 1 label for bars with value 1 and 2. Another label
> for bars with values 3 and 4 and so on..
> 
> Any suggestions as to how this can be done?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Namrata Khemka
> 

With the data

In[..]:=data=Range[13];

Use Options Ticks and BarStyle to solve your formatting problem. If you define
a list of color directives, like 

In[..]:=colortable={col1,col1,col2,col2,...};

where coli is RGBColor[...] or GrayLevel[.] or something like that, and define
explicit tick marks of the form:

In[..]:= helpvar=Table[{i, i}, {i, 1, 5}] // Flatten
Out[..]:= {1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5}

In[..]:= tickstable={Table[{i, helpvar[[i]]}, {i, 1, 10}], Automatic};

In[..]:=BarChart[data, BarStyle :> colortable, Ticks -> tickstable, 
  BarGroupSpacing -> 0]

you will get your desired result with the exception, that the value on the
x-axes will be printed under each column.

Another way is to use GeneralizedBarChart :

In[..]:=data = Range[13];

In[..]:=boxdata = Table[{i, data[[i]], 1}, {i, 1, 13}];
In[..]:=colortable = 
  Table[Table[RGBColor[i, 1 - i, 0], {3}], {i, 0, 1, .3}] // Flatten;
In[..]:=tickstable = {Table[{i - 1, i/3}, {i, 3, 13, 3}], Automatic};
In[..]:=GeneralizedBarChart[data2, BarStyle -> colortable, Ticks ->
tickstable]

...

Look the help browser for Ticks, FrameTicks, BarStyle, PlotStyle ...

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