topic Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS in Graphics Programming

Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

romangelzhaeuse — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:31:54 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to customize colors in my Boxplots the following way:

proc boxplot data=Simon_f3r;
   plot q_TNF_alphaD_TNF_alphaC*Gruppe/
       boxstyle=SCHEMATICID cboxfill=big cboxes=big;
   where Gruppe in (1 2);
run;

But I only get results in the standard colors. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? (I am using SAS Studio. I don't know wether this could be part of the problem.)

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

PaigeMiller — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:39:54 GMT

I think for that to work, you need this command before you run the code.

ods graphics off;

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

ballardw — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:40:09 GMT

@romangelzhaeuse wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to customize colors in my Boxplots the following way:

proc boxplot data=Simon_f3r;
   plot q_TNF_alphaD_TNF_alphaC*Gruppe/
       boxstyle=SCHEMATICID cboxfill=big cboxes=big;
   where Gruppe in (1 2);
run;

But I only get results in the standard colors. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? (I am using SAS Studio. I don't know wether this could be part of the problem.)

Can you provide examples of the values of your variable BIG? Also did you set ODS Graphics on prior? That would interfere with use of the CBOXFILL and other options. From the documentation:

Global graphics statements (GOPTIONS, AXIS, and SYMBOL, for example) and PLOT statement options that specify details of graph appearance (such as CBOXFILL= and FONT= ) are ignored when ODS Graphics is enabled.

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

PaigeMiller — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:41:12 GMT

In this case, BIG is the name of a color.

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:44:19 GMT

@PaigeMiller wrote:

In this case, BIG is the name of a color.

Indeed, "brilliant green." I was a bit surprised to see that SAS recognized it. It's contained in a list of (what seem to be legacy) "Predefined SAS Colors" which is easily available from the SAS v8 Online Doc (http://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/gref/zgscheme.htm), but surprisingly hard to find in more recent documentation (in particular not at all in the built-in help files of SAS 9.4). Two of the rare sources:

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

PaigeMiller — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:59:06 GMT

It's also listed here:

http://support.sas.com/publishing/authors/extras/62007_Appendix.pdf

Except this document actually shows what color BIG should be, and I think it is wrong, I think the color shown on the line above is the actual BIG color.

Not to be confused with B1G, which is the Big Ten Conference logo.

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:17:53 GMT

Thanks for the link. The visual color samples are very helpful. On my monitor the sample in the book (for "BIG") looks perfectly correct.

Re: Customize colors of BOXPLOTS

PaigeMiller — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:28:23 GMT

I keep forgetting that my PC has limited graphics capability, so maybe that's why I'm not seeing what I think is Brilliant Green next to BIG.