topic Re: Use of SYMBOL for annotation in SGRENDER in SAS Programming

Use of SYMBOL for annotation in SGRENDER

Jagadishkatam — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:41:04 GMT

Hi Experts,

Here I have a question on how to use the annotation dataset with function='SYMBOL' to display triangle with black color filled. I want to use this annotated dataset in proc SGRENDER with proc template. But I cannot see the symbol plotted in the graph at all. Your inputs are highly appreciated on where I am going wrong.

 DATA anno;
ATTRIB FUNCTION LENGTH = $20;
FUNCTION = "SYMBOL";
text='TRIANGLE';
style='marker';
X1 = 6;
Y1 = 187;
position='3';
anchor='';
size=3;
color='black';
OUTPUT;
RUN;

in the proc template after the overlay i used the annotate statement as well

proc sgrender data=want template=plot sganno=anno;
run;

Re: Use of SYMBOL for annotation in SGRENDER

ballardw — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:15:17 GMT

Did the log show anything odd?

You may have to share 1) the SGrender code, 2) the template definition and 3) some example data to plot.

Re: Use of SYMBOL for annotation in SGRENDER

himself — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:08:19 GMT

Good question last time I checked on this, SAS provides only provides Arrow, image, line ,oval, polycont,ploygon,rectangle, text and textcont function, SAS did not have Symbol function. Would suggest yusing symbolchar statement, combined with attrmap

Re: Use of SYMBOL for annotation in SGRENDER

ballardw — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:36:53 GMT

@himself wrote:
Good question last time I checked on this, SAS provides only provides Arrow, image, line ,oval, polycont,ploygon,rectangle, text and textcont function, SAS did not have Symbol function. Would suggest yusing symbolchar statement, combined with attrmap

Hasn't changed from the documentation at https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.4/grstatgraph/n08al3evnkckrjn1hi3p8cw3vfw5.htm

What I suspect has happened is that @Jagadishkatam has found the documentation for SAS/Graph, the device based graphics system annotation, which does have a Symbol function, and is attempting to use the incompatible instructions with the SGanno annotate facility.

Text with the correct font/character set may work