topic Re: Adding value labels to SGPLOT in SAS Programming

Adding value labels to SGPLOT

sejiki7 — Thu, 03 May 2018 14:22:02 GMT

I have generated a graph used SGPLOT in SAS Studio, university edition, using the code below.

proc sgplot data=TABLE1;
	VBAR region;
	title 'Attacks by Region';
	footnote1 BOLD 'Codes';
	footnote3 'Region: MENA-Middle East/North Africa, WEUR-Western Europe, EEUR-Eastern Europe, NAME-North America, ASIA-Asia, OCEA-Oceana, SSAF-Sub Saharan Africa';
run;

While this works, the graph is difficult to read because one of the bars is so much larger than the others, which blows up the scale. Is there a way to add value labels and/or a grid to the plot?

Re: Adding value labels to SGPLOT

FloT — Thu, 03 May 2018 15:11:56 GMT

Hi,

This should display the labels:

proc sgplot data=TABLE1;
	VBAR region / datalabel = <your variable containing labels>;
	title 'Attacks by Region';
	footnote1 BOLD 'Codes';
	footnote3 'Region: MENA-Middle East/North Africa, WEUR-Western Europe, EEUR-Eastern Europe, NAME-North America, ASIA-Asia, OCEA-Oceana, SSAF-Sub Saharan Africa';
run;

I hope this helps,

FloT

Re: Adding value labels to SGPLOT

Reeza — Thu, 03 May 2018 16:07:09 GMT

You could also consider a split axis.

http://support.sas.com/kb/55/683.html

data new;
   input Type $1 Value;
   datalines;
A 10
B 15
C 12
D 17
E 205
F 225
;
run;

proc sgplot data=new;
   vbar type / response=value;
   yaxis ranges=(0-20 200-230);
run;