topic Re: Formatting Data Label in PIECHART in SAS Programming

Formatting Data Label in PIECHART

tburus — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:07:52 GMT

I have created a template for a pie chart and would like to control the format of the data label. Currently, the data label is reporting the percent to two decimal places, but I'd like to change this to one.

Code:

proc template;
define statgraph top5pie;
begingraph / datacolors=(&Dblue &Dgray &Dblack &Dblue2 &Dgray2);
layout region;
	piechart category = interest response = pct /
	datalabellocation = inside
	datalabelcontent=(percent)
	datalabelattrs = (family='Arial/bold' weight=bold size=10pt color=&Dgold.)
	categorydirection = clockwise
	dataskin = crisp
	start = 180 name = 'pie'
	otherslice=true
  	othersliceopts=(type=percent percent=10 label="Others (<10% Each)" fillattrs=(color=&Dtan));
	discretelegend 'pie' /
	title = ''
	titleattrs = (family='Arial' size=12pt)
	itemsize=(fillheight=big)
	border = false;
endlayout;
endgraph;
end;
run;

Re: Formatting Data Label in PIECHART

ballardw — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:02:11 GMT

Quite often assigning a format in the SGRENDER for the variable involved can address such issues.

Pseudocode since you didn't provide an example your call:

Proc sgrender data=have template=yourtemplate;
   format Plotvar formatname.;
run;

Where formatname is an appropriate format for the value, maybe percent8.1 or f5.1.

And worst it takes a minute or two to test this approach. At best it does what you want.

Re: Formatting Data Label in PIECHART

tburus — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:14:24 GMT

I tried using `format` after my SGRender call, but didn't get the desired results.

proc sgrender data=viz_body_pct(where=(event_type=1))
	template = top5pie;
    format pct mypcta.;
run;

In the documentation it says that the STAT= option when using a response variable (which is `pct`) is SUM. Is there a way to format the SUM?