topic Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page in Graphics Programming

Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

jacksonan123 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:50:10 GMT

I have prepared some TIFF graphs which I would like to combine on the same page. The attached code presented on this site works well for a *.pdf output. For base SAS there is a greplay macro that allows one to combine graphs. Does any one know if graphs can be combined in SAS UE other than as *.PDF format? If they do can they indicate a posted example?

* close all open ODS destinations ;
ods _all_ close;

* set papersize etc. for PDF ;
options papersize="ISO A4" orientation=portrait;

* open PDF destination 
* the &_SASWS_ macro var is pointing to your "MyFolders" location
*;
ods pdf file="/folders/myfolders/CmaxRIT/sample2.PDF";

* set size of graphics ;
ods graphics / width=8cm height=6cm;

* start gridded layout with two columns ;
ods layout gridded columns=2 ;

* generate output for first region ;
ods region;

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

Reeza — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:53:10 GMT

If you're using SAS Academics on Demand, it supports GREPLAY. It's free as well, with the same restrictions as UE so if you're within the appropriate usage you should be fine.

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

jacksonan123 — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 01:43:31 GMT

To your knowledge does SAS UE support Greplay?

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

Reeza — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:14:13 GMT

I think GREPLAY is part of SAS/GRAPH which isn't included in SAS UE. SGPLOT is the 'new' way of doing things, whereas SAS/GRAPH is pretty old and not really high quality graphics to be honest. I'm assuming that's why they didn't include it in SAS UE.

I also just recalled you can make your own graph template using GTL. It's definitely not simple but would give you pretty detailed control over what you want and would likely come out as a single image.

@jacksonan123 wrote:
To your knowledge does SAS UE support Greplay?

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

jacksonan123 — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:58:31 GMT

I will give GTL a try tomorrow, but I have decided the whole matter would be
much simpler in R if this fails.

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

ballardw — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:00:22 GMT

@jacksonan123 wrote:

I have prepared some TIFF graphs which I would like to combine on the same page. The attached code presented on this site works well for a *.pdf output. For base SAS there is a greplay macro that allows one to combine graphs. Does any one know if graphs can be combined in SAS UE other than as *.PDF format? If they do can they indicate a posted example?

Perhaps Proc Sgpanel?

A pretty vague question. What ODS destination are you using that is not PDF? HTML and similar do not actually have a "page" concept.

Currently none of the other ODS destinations I am familiar with have any of the "layout" options that PDF does.

How big are the individual images? What size is the destination "page"?

FWIW Greplay requires lots of playing around with text and marker sizes and paying attention to height to width ratios in creation and the replay because everything gets rescaled to fit into the replay display area.

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

Reeza — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:02:12 GMT

Yeah, GTL and R are pretty much equivalent in the type and amount of code, but obviously what you know is easier.

Re: Multiple non pdf graphs on same page

jacksonan123 — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:43:13 GMT

I decided to use ggplot in R and it worked well.