topic Differences in SGPLOT output: in SAS studio or downloaded PDF versus downloaded RTF in Graphics Programming

Differences in SGPLOT output: in SAS studio or downloaded PDF versus downloaded RTF

trickeration — Fri, 05 May 2017 02:24:27 GMT

I do not have a lot of experience creating figures in SAS, but I am hoping to create a scatterplot with the font type I am seeing in both the SAS Studio output and downloaded PDF (i.e., Arial font). But most of the attributes I want are in the downloaded RTF version (i.e., different style/color markers between groups, different style/color regression lines between groups). Here is my SAS program:

proc template;
define style styles.arial;
parent=styles.listing; /* Or your favorite style */

style graphfonts from graphfonts / 
      'GraphDataFont' = ("Arial")               
      'GraphUnicodeFont' = ("Arial")                    
      'GraphValueFont' = ("Arial")                
      'GraphLabel2Font' = ("Arial")            
      'GraphLabelFont' = ("Arial")            
      'GraphFootnoteFont' = ("Arial")            
      'GraphTitleFont' = ("Arial")          
      'GraphTitle1Font' = ("Arial")        
      'GraphAnnoFont' = ("Arial")   ;         
end;
run;

ods listing style=arial;

proc sgplot data = sleep_amt ;
xaxis label = "Sleep Hours - Baseline";
yaxis label = "Change in Sleep Hours - 12 months";
reg x = sleep_amt_0 y = sleep_change / group = rand_new jitter  ;
where event =0;
refline   0;
refline 6 / AXIS= X LABEL = "6 hours of sleep" LABELLOC= outside;
refline 9 / AXIS= X  LABEL = "9 hours of sleep" LABELLOC= outside;
run;

Here is the output in the SAS Studio output and downloaded PDF:

Here is the output in the downloaded PDF:

I also hope to display alternative text instead of the variable name, rand_new.

Please pardon me if this is not actually a SAS Studio-/University-specific issue.

Re: Differences in SGPLOT output: in SAS studio or downloaded PDF versus downloaded RTF

DanH_sas — Thu, 11 May 2017 13:59:01 GMT

The easiest way for you to achieve what you want is to use the ATTRPRIORITY=NONE option on the ODS GRAPHICS statement. Just add that statement before generating any of your graphic output to defeat the COLOR prioirty in the default styles used by those destinations. That setting will be active until you change it, or you reset your graphics options.

Hope this helps!

Dan

ods graphics / attrpriority=none;
proc sgplot data = sleep_amt ;
xaxis label = "Sleep Hours - Baseline";
yaxis label = "Change in Sleep Hours - 12 months";
reg x = sleep_amt_0 y = sleep_change / group = rand_new jitter  ;
where event =0;
refline   0;
refline 6 / AXIS= X LABEL = "6 hours of sleep" LABELLOC= outside;
refline 9 / AXIS= X  LABEL = "9 hours of sleep" LABELLOC= outside;
run;

Re: Differences in SGPLOT output: in SAS studio or downloaded PDF versus downloaded RTF

Jay54 — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:05:59 GMT

You can change the legend title by two ways:

1 Add a LABEL to your variable "rand_new".

2. Use the TITLE option in the KEYLEGEND statement.

Since your legend is automatically generated, you can add a KEYLEGEND statement as follows:

KEYLEGEND / title="title";