topic Re: Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line in Graphics Programming

Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line

martyvd — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:07:17 GMT

The highest and lowest y-axis ticks on my graph are not meeting the axis line properly. See my yaxis code and pictures below. I am using SGPLOT.

yaxis label='Percent of all admissions aged 12 years and older' VALUES = (0 TO 50 BY 10) tickvalueformat=data labelattrs=(family=Arial size=8) offsetmax=0 offsetmin=0 
thresholdmin=1 thresholdmax=1 valueattrs=(family=Arial size=8);

Re: Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line

ballardw — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:32:02 GMT

It is a good idea to share some data that will recreate the issue and show the entire procedure code.

Instructions here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/How-to-create-a-data-step-version-of-your-data-AKA-generate/ta-p/258712 will show how to turn an existing SAS data set into data step code that can be pasted into a forum code box using the </> icon or attached as text to show exactly what you have and that we can test code against.

Provide all ODS graphics options that are also in effect when the program is run.

Since this is an appearance issue which ODS destination are you sending the output to?

In some cases some resolution of monitor/graphic file type and DPI settings can cause things not to appear to align at some viewing resolutions.

Re: Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line

martyvd — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:44:56 GMT

The output destination is PDF. See my full code below. I've also attached my data.

proc template;
define style Custom;
parent = Styles.default; 
class graphaxislines/color=black width=0.75pt;
class graphbackground/color=white;
end;
run;

PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.prim_sub_use DATAFILE= "E:\SAS figures\Primary substance use data"
            DBMS=xlsx REPLACE;
     		GETNAMES=YES;
RUN;

data prim_sub_use;
set prim_sub_use; 
label 
Alcohol	='^_^_Alcohol^_'
Opiates	='^_^_Opiates^_'
Cocaine	='^_^_Cocaine^_'
Marijuana='^_^_Marijuana/hashish^_'
Methamphetamine_amphetamines='^_Methamphetamine/amphetamines^_'
;
run;

ods _all_ close;
options nonumber nodate orientation=landscape papersize=letter nocenter
leftmargin=.5in rightmargin=.5in topmargin=.5in bottommargin=.5in;
ods pdf file="E:/SAS figures/fig1_pdf_new.pdf" dpi=300 notoc;
ods pdf style=Custom;
ods layout start style={bordercolor=white borderstyle=solid borderwidth=1pt backgroundcolor=white} description='Primary substance use at admission, 2007-2017';
ods noptitle;
ods region x=0in y=0in width=6.5in style=[borderwidth=1 bordercolor=white backgroundcolor=white];
ods graphics on/ reset=all border=off noborder width=6.5in scale=on;
title;

proc sgplot data=prim_sub_use noborder nowall;
series x=Year y=Alcohol/markers markerattrs=(symbol=CircleFilled color='#0060A9' size=12) lineattrs=(color='#0060A9' thickness=1.5pt);
series x=Year y=Opiates/markers markerattrs=(symbol=TriangleDownFilled size=12 color='#ed1c24') lineattrs=(color='#ed1c24' thickness=1.5pt pattern=solid);
series x=Year y=Cocaine/markers markerattrs=(symbol=SquareFilled color='#ffc222' size=12) lineattrs=(color='#ffc222' thickness=1.5pt pattern=solid);
series x=Year y=Marijuana/markers markerattrs=(symbol=DiamondFilled color='#64c069' size=12) lineattrs=(color='#64c069' thickness=1.5pt pattern=solid) legendlabel="Marijuana/hashish";
series x=Year y=Methamphetamine_amphetamines/markers markerattrs=(symbol=TriangleFilled size=12 color='#00a2e5') lineattrs=(color='#00a2e5' thickness=1.5pt pattern=solid);
yaxis label='Percent of all admissions aged 12 years and older' VALUES = (0 TO 50 BY 10) tickvalueformat=data labelattrs=(family=Arial size=8) offsetmax=0 offsetmin=0 
thresholdmin=1 thresholdmax=1 valueattrs=(family=Arial size=8);
xaxis label='Admission Year' VALUES = (2007 TO 2017 BY 1) display=(nolabel noticks) valueattrs=(family=Arial size=8);
keylegend/noborder linelength=30 fillaspect=golden valueattrs=(family=Arial size=8);
run;

ods graphics off;
ods layout end;
ods pdf close;
ods _ALL_ CLOSE;

Re: Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line

PGStats — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:41:19 GMT

It could be that antialiassing has been turned off. This happens when there are more than 4000 elements to draw in a plot. You can ask for a higher limit in the ODS GRAPHICS statement with option

ANTIALIASMAX= 100000

Re: Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line

martyvd — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:07:14 GMT

Adding this option does not seem to make any difference.

Re: Highest and lowest axis ticks not meeting axis line

ghosh — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 02:43:03 GMT

Either suppress the tickmarks or use the accepted solution (inside ticks), both shown here

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/SGPLOT-how-to-get-tick-marks-inside/td-p/343401

If you do keep the status quo, I don't believe anybody will even notice the tick lines not matching at the joint