topic Re: Displaying side-by-side subgroups using gchart and vbar in SAS Programming

Displaying side-by-side subgroups using gchart and vbar

shaknon — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:36:15 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to graph data similar to the following data set "Employees":

Age	Year
19	2000
25	2000
18	2001
45	2000
...	...
38	2001

I used gchart to graph the data as follows:

proc gchart data = Employees;
     vbar Age / MIDPOINTS= 0 to 100 by 10 subgroup = Year ;
     run;
quit;

I want the chart to display the midpoints on the x-axis (10 age categories) and the frequency of each age category on the y-axis for each year (i.e. 2000 and 2001). I want the year subgroups to be displayed side by side for each age category. However, with this code I get the 2001 bars stacked on top of the 2000 bars for each age category. I looked online and I read many examples such as this example, but I am not sure why my code is not displaying the subgroup bars side by side as illustrated in the previous example.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Re: Displaying side-by-side subgroups using gchart and vbar

ballardw — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:17:54 GMT

I would try

vbar year/ group age;

format age chartage.;

Where chartage is a custom format that looks something like

Proc format;

value chartage

0-5 = ' 0 -5'

6-15 = ' 6-15'

16-25= '16-25'

(etc);

Notice that the example doesn't use MIDPOINTS and SUBGROUP is within GROUP.

Re: Displaying side-by-side subgroups using gchart and vbar

shaknon — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:20:03 GMT

It worked, thank you for the help.