topic Re: Bar Chart in Graphics Programming

Bar Chart

mona4u — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:22:14 GMT

I have this dataset and I want to produce a bar chart like this

Can you please help me with this my first time doing a bar chart

Obs	Site_Initiated	Site_Approved1	Date_Supplied4	site_contracted
1	39	6	7	34

Re: Bar Chart

PaigeMiller — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:15:52 GMT

Explain what bar chart you want.

I don't see these variables as belonging on a single bar chart.

Re: Bar Chart

mona4u — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:23:08 GMT

I just edited the question

Re: Bar Chart

PaigeMiller — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:27:33 GMT

There are a number of examples shown for PROC GCHART. Please give it a try and if you can't get it to work, show us your code.

http://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmmvacdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=graphref&docsetTarget=n1dvg3qp3e9pann10us1wxo0qe0q.htm&locale=en

There are a number of examples show for PROC SGPLOT. See if any of those get's you the results you want.

http://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmmvacdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=graphref&docsetTarget=n1dvg3qp3e9pann10us1wxo0qe0q.htm&locale=en

Re: Bar Chart

AhmedAl_Attar — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:43:23 GMT

Hi,
You probably would have an easier way to chart it, if you data set was structured like this

Measure	Value
Site_Initiated	39
Site_Approved1	6
Date_Supplied4	7
site_contracted	34

Hope this helps,

Ahmed

Re: Bar Chart

mona4u — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:53:16 GMT

This is the chart that I got from changing the data structure and using this code

this is the dataset

Obs Vname Vvalue1234

Site_Initiated	39
Site_Approved1	6
Date_Supplied4	7
site_contracted	34

this is the code

proc gchart data=set5;

vbar Vname;  

run;

this is the chart

Re: Bar Chart

DanH_sas — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:15:11 GMT

change VBAR to VBAR3D in your PROC GCHART, and you should get a similar chart to your original post.

Re: Bar Chart

PaigeMiller — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:16:41 GMT

vbar Vname/type=sum sumvar=vvalue1234;

Re: Bar Chart

PaigeMiller — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:18:01 GMT

Let me strongly un-recommend the 3D option.

Just because you CAN make 3D bar charts with SAS software does not mean that you SHOULD make 3D bar charts. 3D bar charts are very difficult to interpret and often misleading.

Re: Bar Chart

DanH_sas — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:24:57 GMT

I do agree with Paige. If you want a 3-D'ish appearance on your bars without obscuring in the information, trying using a DATASKIN. Run this and see what you think:

data temp;
input measure $ 1-15 value;
cards;
Site_Initiated	 39
Site_Approved1	  6
Date_Supplied4	  7
site_contracted	34
;
run;

proc sgplot data=temp;
vbar measure / response=value dataskin=pressed;
run;

Re: Bar Chart

mona4u — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:38:55 GMT

I want to change the default here

Do you have an idea how I can do it?

Re: Bar Chart

mona4u — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:40:17 GMT

Thanks for your answer. This way worked too but I can't accept more than one answer.

Re: Bar Chart

PaigeMiller — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:01:54 GMT

@mona4u wrote:

I want to change the default here

Do you have an idea how I can do it?

Use the LABEL statement.

Re: Bar Chart

mona4u — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:48:35 GMT

Thanks.
I want to adjust the size and the location
because I'm creating a report and I want it to on the right of the table