Grouped bar chart - color bars individually

Hey, I have a grouped bar chart and I want to colour the bars individually and not per group or per position within the group. I found some code you can see below, which I think is exaclty what I need. The problem is, that I can't use the CData command.

The code below gives me the following error:

'No appropriate method, property, or field 'CData' for class 'matlab.graphics.chart.primitive.Bar'

How can I achieve that without using CData? Thank you in advance for your help.

y = [604 603 ; 903 903 ; 1083 1083]';
h = bar(y,'FaceColor','flat');
h(1).CData(1,:) = [0 1 0]; % group 1 1st bar
h(1).CData(2,:) = [0 1 0]; % group 1 2nd bar
h(2).CData(1,:) = [0 0 1]; % group 2 1st bar
h(2).CData(2,:) = [0 0 1]; % group 2 2nd bar
h(3).CData(1,:) = [1 0 0]; % group 3 1st bar
h(3).CData(2,:) = [1 0 0]; % group 3 2nd bar

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[Luna]

What is your Matlab version? It works for me. You didn't type figure there btw.

y = [604 603 ; 903 903 ; 1083 1083]';
figure;
h = bar(y,'FaceColor','flat');
h(1).CData(1,:) = [0 1 0]; % group 1 1st bar
h(1).CData(2,:) = [0 1 0]; % group 1 2nd bar
h(2).CData(1,:) = [0 0 1]; % group 2 1st bar
h(2).CData(2,:) = [0 0 1]; % group 2 2nd bar
h(3).CData(1,:) = [1 0 0]; % group 3 1st bar
h(3).CData(2,:) = [1 0 0]; % group 3 2nd bar

[LS]

Hey Luna, sorry, I forgot the figure.

I'm using Matlab2016b as indicated. But hm then that's not what I wanted. Sorry.

I want for example the following color order: green blue red yellow red blue. Or something like that. Every bar individual.

In your example, the first ones are green, the second ones are blue and the third ones are red, but I want them individually, despite their position within the group.

EDIT: could you try this? I think then it's however what I wanted...

y = [604 603 ; 903 903 ; 1083 1083]';
figure;
h = bar(y,'FaceColor','flat');
h(1).CData(1,:) = [0 1 0]; % group 1 1st bar
h(1).CData(2,:) = [0 .5 .5]; % group 1 2nd bar
h(2).CData(1,:) = [0 0 1]; % group 2 1st bar
h(2).CData(2,:) = [r 0 0]; % group 2 2nd bar
h(3).CData(1,:) = [1 0 0]; % group 3 1st bar
h(3).CData(2,:) = [0 0 1]; % group 3 2nd bar

Answer 1

[LS]

UPDATE

I found a solution but I think it is pretty ugly... Do you have some better tips?

y = [2 2 3; 2 5 6; 2 8 9; 2 11 12];
y1 = [2 2 3; 0 0 0;0 0 0;0 0 0];
y2 = [0 0 0; 2 5 6; 0 0 0;0 0 0];
y3 = [0 0 0;0 0 0;2 8 9;0 0 0];
y4 = [0 0 0;0 0 0;0 0 0; 2 11 12]

bar(y1)
set(b(1),'FaceColor','k')
set(b(2),'FaceColor','r')
hold on
bar(y2)
hold on
bar(y3)
hold on
bar(y4)

This is exactly what I meant. But now the bars are not grouped anymore, right?