topic How to draw a bar line chart? in Graphics Programming

How to draw a bar line chart?

zhangda — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:28:20 GMT

Hello!

I have data as below, from which I want to draw a bar-line chart, volume is the bar and rate is the line, would you please help me?

Thanks!

data test;
input
Type $2. Volume 5. Rate 18.;
cards;
A -105 0
B -102 -0.005839013
C -97 0.039130435
D -91 -0.002736612
E -78 0
F -67 0
G -58 -0.166469762
H -55 0.058062447
I -52 0
J -34 0.101676241
K -30 -0.035087719
L -27 -0.001283148
M -25 -0.147058824
N -21 0.001364522
O -21 -0.019047619
P -19 -0.033603803
Q -18 0
R -12 0
S -12 0
T -12 0.338461539
U -11 0.155289702
V -10 0
W -10 -0.255411255
X -8 0
Y -7 0
Z -7 0.02945253
;run;

Re: How to draw a bar line chart?

ballardw — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:00:12 GMT

Here is one approach:

proc sgplot data=test;
   vbar type / response=volume stat=sum;
   vline type/ response=rate y2axis;
run;

SGPLOT will attempt to overlay each separate plot type. However there are severe restrictions of what may be combined.

The Y2axis is needed because the range of values you have for rate is so small that it gets buried in the base of the bars.

Look in the documentation for SGPLOT for axis and other appearance options.

Re: How to draw a bar line chart?

Reeza — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:14:56 GMT

What version of SAS do you have?

Top 3 hits from Google : SAS Bar Line Chart

http://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/yourGraphs/businessQuick/barline/

http://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2012/04/02/bar-line-graph/

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/grstatproc/69716/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1mp0swy0atvzun1oeqlkrg8d89o.htm

Re: How to draw a bar line chart?

zhangda — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:29:45 GMT

Hi Ballard,

Would you please guide me how to put the bars in a descending order(from the highest to lowest height), I sorted it before sgplot but why the bars still show disorderly? (see the data below). Thanks a lot!

data test;
input
Type $2. Volume 5. Rate 18.;
cards;
A -19 0
B -102 -0.005839013
C -97 0.039130435
D -91 -0.002736612
E -78 0
F -6 0
G -58 -0.166469762
H -55 0.058062447
I -52 0
J -34 0.101676241
K -30 -0.035087719
L -27 -0.001283148
M -25 -0.147058824
N -2 0.001364522
O -21 -0.019047619
P -19 -0.033603803
Q -18 0
R 12 0
S -12 0
T 11 0.338461539
U -11 0.155289702
V -10 0
W -10 -0.255411255
X -8 0
Y 24 0
Z -7 0.02945253
;run;

proc sort data=test output=test2;by descending volume ;run;
ods graphics / width=15in height=6.81in;
proc sgplot data=test2;
vbar type / response=volume stat=sum;
vline type/ response=rate y2axis;
run;

Re: How to draw a bar line chart?

Reeza — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:35:43 GMT

VBAR Option - categoryorder=respdesc

vbar type / response=volume stat=sum categoryorder=respdesc;

Re: How to draw a bar line chart?

zhangda — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:39:28 GMT

Thank you so much!