topic Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL in Graphics Programming

Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

MarkHiltbruner — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 23:15:01 GMT

Folks -

Trying to rotate/change the orientation of the y-axis label, for example - I want the label="hour' to show up on plot like

I'm a fairly new SAS user, so thanks for any help I can get. I've read all the documentation I could find, but not helpful. Figure the SAS PROs can help me out.

Regards!

Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

ballardw — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 23:37:19 GMT

Please show the code the you are currently using to create your plot. Depending on the individual procedure the are different ways and we need to know the procedure and current options.

Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

Ksharp — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 04:56:39 GMT

Post it at a better place :

Graphics Programming

forum

Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

ChrisNZ — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:56:24 GMT

With SAS/Graph you can use the rotate= and angle= options.

Moved to the graphics steam.

Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

MarkHiltbruner — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:48:01 GMT

All -

Here's the source -

PROC SGPLOT;
BY SMF70STN YEAR MONTH;
HBAR hour/RESPONSE=lpctby
DATALABELATTRS=(FAMILY='Georgia' SIZE=8pt COLOR=red weight=bold)
DATALABEL DATASKIN=crisp
BASELINEATTRS=(THICKNESS=0)
BARWIDTH=1
FILLATTRS=(COLOR=cadetblue);
format lpctby percent8.2;
TITLE;
TITLE1 H=2.0 C=BLACK 'BIT AVERAGE LPAR USAGE';
TITLE2 H=1.5 C=BLACK 'LPAR NAME = ' C=RED ' #BYVAL1';
TITLE3 H=1.5 C=BLACK 'FOR ' C=RED ' #BYVAL3' ' / ' '#BYVAL2';
xaxis offsetmin=0 label='LPAR*Logical*Percent*Busy'
labelattrs=(size=12pt family=arial color=red weight=bold);
yaxis offsetmin=.02 offsetmax=.02
label='Hour' values= (0 to 23 by 1)
labelattrs=(size=12pt family=arial color=red weight=bold)
valueshint;
run;

Regards, Mark

Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

Rick_SAS — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:11:55 GMT

No, PROC SGPLOT does not support that option (which is sometimes called "Hotel Text") for the label.

The best I can offer is to suppress the label by using

yaxis display=(nolabel);

and then use SG annotation to manually stack the letters for the vertical label.

Re: Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

MarkHiltbruner — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:20:55 GMT

Hi Rick -

Thanks for the response, and yes, I was hoping for an easier solution.

Mark