topic Re: Removing Subtitle from PROC LIFETEST Plot in SAS Programming

Removing Subtitle from PROC LIFETEST Plot

daveconifer1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:54:06 GMT

I've been using the documentation written by the great Warren Kuhfield to customize plots created directly from PROC LIFETEST and using them for submissions.

HOwever, I'm stumped on this one. I have a plot in which I am displaying the number of subjects at risk, but I don't want to display "with number of subjects at risk" in the body of the plot. I have been searching high and low through Warren's KAPLAN.PDF documentation and can't figure this out. Any ideas?

I see this in the log, but don't know how to alter it:

MPRINT(COMPILESURVIVALTEMPLATES): if (PLOTATRISK=1) entrytitle "With Number of Subjects at Risk" / textattrs=GRAPHVALUETEXT;
MPRINT(COMPILESURVIVALTEMPLATES): endif;

Re: Removing Subtitle from PROC LIFETEST Plot

FreelanceReinh — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:14:28 GMT

Hi @daveconifer1,

I was able to remove the subtitle by compiling the macros provided in https://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/stat/ex_code/142/templft.html and then submitting

%ProvideSurvivalMacros %let ntitles=1; %CompileSurvivalTemplates

before a PROC LIFETEST step (using SAS 9.4M5, SAS/STAT 14.3).

So, if you already use those macros, just add %let ntitles=1; to your existing code for KM plot modifications.

Re: Removing Subtitle from PROC LIFETEST Plot

daveconifer1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:58:26 GMT

Thank you so much, FreelanceReinhard! It worked!