topic re: Bar Label Font Size in Graphics Programming

re: Bar Label Font Size

twildone — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:06:08 GMT

Hi....I am trying to create bar graphs that have both the counts and percentages on the graphs. The problem I am having is the font size on each bar is too small. Is there a way to specifiy the font size or height for the bar labels. Also, I am creating separate bar graphs for each question, is it possible to label the question inside the graph rather than outside the graph and a border. Thanks.

Axis1 style=1 width=1 minor=none label=(height=9pt font="arial/bold" angle=90  "Percent") value=(height=9pt font="arial" "0%" "10%" "20%" "30%" "40%" "50%" "60%" "70%" "80%" "90%" "100%");
Axis2 style=1 width=2 label=(height=9pt font="arial/bold"   "Response") value=(height=9pt font="arial");
Axis3 label=(height=9pt font="arial/bold"   "Term") value=(height=9pt font="arial");
title;
title1 "PT Survey Data Bar Chart";
footnote;

proc gchart data=Want7;
	vbar Response / discrete group=Term type=percent inside=pct  outside=freq nolegend g100
		coutline=black raxis=axis1 maxis=axis2 gaxis=axis3 woutline=1 patternid=midpoint width=20;
	by Question ;
run; 
quit;

Output:

Question=My experience with course content and the learning environment. - The course content was interesting.

Re: re: Bar Label Font Size

RichardDeVen — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:34:23 GMT

SGPLOT VBAR can produce a G100 vbar chart. The proc option PCTLEVEL controls how the VBAR PERCENT is computed. The SGPLOT vbar category is term instead of response that is used in GCHART vbar.

Example:

I used the variable name answer instead of response. This was done to help avoid any mindset confusion with the vbar option response=.

The data is pre-counted answers. Small changes would be needed if the plot data set is one row per respondent (i.e. raw/unsummarized).

option DATALABELATTRS= is used to increase the bar data font size.

data have (label="Survey summary count");
question = 'One';
length Term $20 Answer $10;
input term & answer & count;
if term ne lag(term) then answer_seq=1; else answer_seq+1;
datalines;
Fall 2018  Disagree  4
Fall 2018  Neutral   36
Fall 2018  Agree     160
Spring 2019  Disagree  6
Spring 2019  Neutral  24
Spring 2019  Agree  70
;

ods html file='vbar.html';

title "Survey chart";

data need;
  set have;
  count_as_label = count;   * separate var neeed because count is also response=;
run;

proc sgplot data=need pctlevel=group;
  by question;
  vbar term / 
    response=count
    group=answer 
    groupdisplay=cluster
    grouporder=data
    barwidth=0.85
    stat=percent
    datalabel=count_as_label
    datalabel=answer
    datalabelattrs=(size=11pt)

  ;
  xaxis labelpos=right display=(noticks)  ;*tickstyle=inside;
  yaxis display=(nolabel) values=(0 to 1 by .1) offsetmin=0.07;
  keylegend / location=inside position=bottom title="";
run;

ods _all_ close;

Re: re: Bar Label Font Size

GraphGuy — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:16:32 GMT

Is your value=(height=9pt) not affecting the text size? Have you tried a larger value there?

Re: re: Bar Label Font Size

twildone — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:35:21 GMT

Yes...I tried a larger and smaller value and nothing would change.