topic Re: Creating Data Labels on Bar Chart in Graphics Programming

Creating Data Labels on Bar Chart

bldudley — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:41:53 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to add data labels to my bar chart. Currently I am getting the variable instead of an actual value in percent.

Can you help?

Code:

title 'Game Attendance Percentages';
proc sgplot data=profoot.pro_football_segments;
	hbar game_attendance /datalabel=game_attendance stat=percent  fillattrs=(color=grey);
	xaxis label='Percentage of Game Attendance' labelattrs=(size=12);
	yaxis label='Game Attendance' labelattrs=(size=12);
run;

Log:

 1          OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 61         
 62         title 'Game Attendance Percentages';
 63         proc sgplot data=profoot.pro_football_segments;
 64         hbar game_attendance /datalabel=game_attendance stat=percent  fillattrs=(color=grey);
 65         xaxis label='Percentage of Game Attendance' labelattrs=(size=12);
 66         yaxis label='Game Attendance' labelattrs=(size=12);
 67         run;
 
 NOTE: PROCEDURE SGPLOT used (Total process time):
       real time           0.79 seconds
       cpu time            0.29 seconds
       
 NOTE: There were 473 observations read from the data set PROFOOT.PRO_FOOTBALL_SEGMENTS.
 
 68         
 69         OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 82

Results:

Re: Creating Data Labels on Bar Chart

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:00:30 GMT

Simply erase the

=game_attendance

from your hbar options so that the code is

title 'Game Attendance Percentages';
proc sgplot data=profoot.pro_football_segments;
	hbar game_attendance / datalabel stat=percent  fillattrs=(color=grey);
	xaxis label='Percentage of Game Attendance' labelattrs=(size=12);
	yaxis label='Game Attendance' labelattrs=(size=12);
run;

Re: Creating Data Labels on Bar Chart

bldudley — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:05:20 GMT

Thank you! I had tried that previously but it wasn't working.

I appreciate your help!

Re: Creating Data Labels on Bar Chart

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:08:32 GMT

Anytime 🙂