topic Re: Changing a title with a logical condition in SAS Programming

Changing a title with a logical condition

teli4a — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:11:14 GMT

Dear all, I was wondering whether it was possible to use a logical operator to change the title of a plot in a proc gplot?

Re: Changing a title with a logical condition

PeterClemmensen — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:15:17 GMT

what kind of logical operator?

Re: Changing a title with a logical condition

teli4a — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:26:06 GMT

For example:

if (condition=true) then title "something";

Re: Changing a title with a logical condition

Quentin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:01:11 GMT

You should make a little example of the code you want to run. (e.g. the SGPlot step with some sample data, the condition you want to evaluate, the title statement you want to generate).

Assuming you want to conditionally generate a title statement, that usually means using the macro language, e.g.

%macro ... ;

  %if &condition %then %do;
    title2 "My Title"; 
  %end;

%mend;

But there are other ways to dynamically generate titles, e.g. in GTL.

Re: Changing a title with a logical condition

RW9 — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:31:46 GMT

If you want the simplest answer, stop using a graphing system that is well out of date. Read up on proc template and the Graph Template language. You can pass in the tile as a parameter for instance. There is a great blog here:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/

Which has all examples of all types of graphs with loads of code examples.

Re: Changing a title with a logical condition

ballardw — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:29:21 GMT

@teli4a wrote:

For example:

if (condition=true) then title "something";

What sets the value of the condition? A manual entry (you for instance), the result of a procedure, a value in a data set?

Can you provide examples of the conditions you want to use. Some may be easier than others. Hint: special characters especially % & ( ) comma may require more coding.

And can you provide some examples of the condition and what you want the title(s) to be.