topic Re: Some of tick values have bee thinned in SAS Gplot, How can display all tick values? in Graphics Programming

Some of tick values have been thinned in SAS SGplot, How can display all tick values?

zinojeng — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:18:16 GMT

plot of the odds ratios and their 95% confidence intervals created using SAS PROC SGPLOT,

but some of the tick values have been thinned. How plot the figure without remove or thinned tick values ?

Thanks a lot!

 title "SGPLOT: Forest Plot";
   proc sgplot data=excel_b;
    scatter x=oddsratioest y=effect / xerrorlower=lowercl
                                  xerrorupper=uppercl
                                  markerattrs=or
                                 (symbol=DiamondFilled size=5);
    refline 1 / axis=x;
    xaxis label="OR and 95% CI " min=0.9;
    yaxis label="Covariates";
  run;

Re: Some of tick values have bee thinned in SAS Gplot, How can display all tick values?

Rick_SAS — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:34:02 GMT

With that many discrete vertical labels, there isn't enough room to plot them all without labels overlapping (which SGPLOT tries to avoid). You can

1. Decrease the font size for the tick values. Probably size=8 is about the smallest that can be read.

2. Increase the vertical size of the plot. Plots can stretch arbitrarily long.

3. Do both

To decrease the font size, use

YAXIS / valueattrs=(size=8);

To increase the vertical dimension of the graph, use the following BEFORE the call to PROC SGPLOT, For example:

ods graphics / width=500px height=800px;

Another option: Since you have two stages, you could use PROC SGPANEL to create a panel of plots, one for each stage.

Re: Some of tick values have bee thinned in SAS Gplot, How can display all tick values?

Jay54 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:22:30 GMT

Also, you can use FITPOLICY=none for the yaxis.

Re: Some of tick values have bee thinned in SAS Gplot, How can display all tick values?

DougZ — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:30:21 GMT

I have a similar problem with SGPLOT - it seems to ignore all my suggestions. I want an x axis with a format of monname1., i.e., JFMAMJJASOND, but with the code below (and variations) I always get this in the log, and an axis that shows "01Jan 01Feb 01Mar..."

ods graphics / width=1000px height=600px;

proc sgpanel data=work.mean_xyz;
where upcase(some_category) = "BLAHBLAH";
panelby product;
colaxis valuesformat=monname1. valueattrs=(size=8) fitpolicy=none;
rowaxis label="XYZ";
series x=obsdate y=model_xyz;
series x=obsdate y=act_xyz;
run;

NOTE: The column format YYMMDDD10 is replaced by an auto-generated format on the axis.
NOTE: Some of the tick values have been thinned.

Re: Some of tick values have bee thinned in SAS Gplot, How can display all tick values?

DougZ — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:53:09 GMT

I meant SGPANEL, not SGPLOT