topic PROC SGPlot - Strange currency format behaviour in Graphics Programming

PROC SGPlot - Strange currency format behaviour

Jim_Ogilvie — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:39:37 GMT

Hi all,

I am part way through putting together a natty little horizontal bar chart that shows currency values in the segments and as a total for each bar:

* Horizintal bar chart showing product by market sector;
title 'Sales Activity by Market Sector';
proc sgplot data=activity_market_summary;
    hbar Activity_Group / response=total_revenue group=Market displaybaseline=auto barwidth=0.6 
            seglabel seglabelformat=NLMNLGBP10.0 datalabel dataskin=pressed;
    yaxis display=(noline noticks nolabel);
    xaxis display=(noline noticks nolabel) grid;
    format total_revenue NLMNLGBP10.0;
    keylegend / location=outside position=top fillheight=10 fillaspect=2 ;
run;

The segments are displaying as I would expect, as whole GBP values only. The datalabel values (bar totals) however, are displaying the decimal part (£XXXX.00) in every case.

The head scratcher is that, if I change the format of total_revenue to NLMNLGBP10.1 it displays as expected, to one decimal place. The moment I switch back to NLMNLGBP10.0 the two decimals come back!

SAS9.4 M6

Thanks

Jim

Re: PROC SGPlot - Strange currency format behaviour

PGStats — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:47:07 GMT

Looks like a bug

1) make sure that the graphs you are looking at are not old versions

2) if the behaviour is confirmed, open a tract with SAS Technical Support

https://support.sas.com/en/technical-support/contact-sas.html

Re: PROC SGPlot - Strange currency format behaviour

Jim_Ogilvie — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:34:22 GMT

Many thanks PG - I'll raise it with SAS.

Best regards

Jim

Re: PROC SGPlot - Strange currency format behaviour

Jim_Ogilvie — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:13:45 GMT

Update form SAS:

This issue has been passed on to SAS R&D for fixing in a future release.

In the meanwhile, they provided this work around which has fixed my issues:

Use the following format (instead of NLMNLGBP10.0):

NLMNY10.0

Happy SAS'ing