topic Re: Labels on reference lines in Graphics Programming

Labels on reference lines

natanya — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:37:04 GMT

Hello,

In the gplot graph that I am producing, I would like to include 5 reference (vref) lines. I would like to label each reference line with text i.e. "id1" "id2" "id3" etc.
Is there any way I can do this?

Thanks in advance,
Natanya

Re: Labels on reference lines

ArtC — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:58:25 GMT

You are looking for the REFLABEL= option on the AXIS statement. You can find an example at:
http://caloxy.com/papers/61_133_30.pdf

Re: Labels on reference lines

natanya — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:14:57 GMT

Thanks ArtC. This is great.
Is there a way to control where the labels of the reference lines go? i.e. can I put them sideways? or in the middle of the line? on the left or right? top or bottom?
Thanks.

Re: Labels on reference lines

ArtC — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:25:56 GMT

You can use the justify= option to move the text some [left, right, center].
[pre]
axis1 reflabel=(t=1 j=left '100' j=left 'LBS');
[/pre]
For vertical text consider using the a=90 and a=-90 options.
Text can also be placed with the TITLE, FOOTNOTE, and NOTE statements, which support the MOVE= option to place text exactly.
If you need to do too very much more you may need to use ANNOTATE which is very flexible.

Re: Labels on reference lines

natanya — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:50:59 GMT

Thanks for your help,
I will work with these options. At this point annotate is too threatening.

Re: Labels on reference lines

ArtC — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:47:22 GMT

Good luck
Annotate need not be so hard to learn. The documentation is good, there are a number of good papers, and of course my unbiased favorite is the book:
Annotate Simply the Basics
https://support.sas.com/pubscat/bookdetails.jsp?pc=57320

Re: Labels on reference lines

natanya — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:00:05 GMT

Hi Art,
Thank you for your links. I did take the plunge and worked a bit with annotate. I used one of your documents that I found online. It was very clearly written and very helpful. I am sure that as I move forward I will have more questions, but meanwhile thanks for your help.
Natanya