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I'm getting multiple occurrences of the same value on the x-axis in GCHART.

NancyBerkley — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:22:46 GMT

I'm getting multiple occurrences of the same variable (month) on my x-axis in GCHART. However when I run the Proc Freq, it shows that that each month is discrete. I've attached the output for GCHART and for FREQ. The code is below. Thanks for your help! Proc Freq data=All2 ; Tables Month / nocol norow missing ; Run ; Proc GCHART data=All2 ; vbar Month / type = freq ; Run I'm getting multiple occurrences of each monthProc freq shows the months as discrete

Re: I'm getting multiple occurrences of the same value on the x-axis in GCHART.

ballardw — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 23:08:02 GMT

I suspect that you have actual dates with different days of the month and a MONYY7 format applied. Gchart will attempt, depending on your Proc and Axis options attempt to display tick marks for separate values but with the same format they get the same label.

Proc freq however honors the format for grouping purposes.

You should show your entire output proc chart code and any associated AXIS, SYMBOL and PATTERN statements.

Here is an example of Proc Freq reporting different days of the month as a single "month" for the output.

data example;
   input x mmddyy10.;
   format x date9.;
datalines;
02/01/2018
02/02/2018
;
run;

proc freq data=example;
  tables x;
  format x monyy7.;
run;

/* with default format*/
proc freq data=example;
  tables x;
run;

Re: I'm getting multiple occurrences of the same value on the x-axis in GCHART.

GraphGuy — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:05:05 GMT

If you're using Proc GChart, try adding the 'discrete' vbar option.

If that doesn't work, then try also adding the 'nozero' vbar option.

Re: I'm getting multiple occurrences of the same value on the x-axis in GCHART.

NancyBerkley — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:02:20 GMT

I thought of this, but I am creating the date variable myself from an Excel Data/Time String...

Session Start

2018-01-02 08:14:00

2018-01-02 08:26:03

2018-01-02 09:47:01

Data Test1 ; Set Usage.All_Data ;

Start_Year_Str = Substr(Session_Start,1,4) ;

Start_Year = input(Start_Year_Str, 8.) ;

Start_Month_Str = Substr(Session_Start,6,2) ;

Start_Month = input(Start_Month_Str, 8.) ;

Start_Date = MDY(Start_Month,1,Start_Year) ;

Format Start_DAte MonYY7. ;

Run ;

Output:

Session_Start Start_Year_Str Start_Year Start_Month_Str Start_Month Start_Date
2018-01-02 08:14:00 2018 2018 01 1 JAN2018
2018-01-02 08:26:03 2018 2018 01 1 JAN2018
2018-01-02 09:47:01 2018 2018 01 1 JAN2018
2018-01-02 10:01:37 2018 2018 01 1 JAN2018
2018-01-02 13:31:39 2018 2018 01 1 JAN2018

Using the option Discrete as recommended by RobertAllison_SAS did the trick.

Re: I'm getting multiple occurrences of the same value on the x-axis in GCHART.

NancyBerkley — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:03:46 GMT

"Discrete" did the trick. Thanks so much!