topic Re: keylegend list value down before going across in Graphics Programming

keylegend list value down before going across

Kastchei — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:30:33 GMT

Hey there!

When I have a keylegend on my sgplot with several rows (down = ) and columns (across = ), the legend values get filled across each row first, and then goes down to the next. E.g.

1 2 3 4

5 6 7

Is there an option to easily make it go down first? I know I can make an attribute map, but I was hoping there is an easy option to toggle in the keylegend statement.

1 3 5 7

2 4 6

Thanks!

Michael

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

ballardw — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:42:40 GMT

You don't show the code. So I can't tell if you are specifying down= , across= or both.

Try using just the Down= option.

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

JeffMeyers — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:29:55 GMT

Hello! If I understand correctly you want it the values to fill the columns and then rows. I don't see the option in SGPLOT, but if you convert your code to GTL the option is in the DISCRETELEGEND statement:

ORDER=ROWMAJOR | COLUMNMAJOR
specifies whether legend entries are organized into rows or into columns.

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

Kastchei — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:24:34 GMT

Thanks! I figured it was somewhere. I think converting to GTL is more work than the data attributes map, but maybe only because I don't know how to do it! 😅

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

JeffMeyers — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:58:29 GMT

A quick tip if you ever want to see what your SGPLOT code looks like in GTL is to use the TMPLOUT= option in the PROC SGPLOT statement. It will save a program with your current graph written in GTL.

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

DanH_sas — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:05:57 GMT

In the SG procedures, if you use the DOWN option (without ACROSS), the ORDER is internally set to COLUMNMAJOR. In your case, if you set DOWN=2, you will get the desired result.

Thanks!

Dan

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

JeffMeyers — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:45:56 GMT

That's cool to know. Hadn't heard of that yet.

Re: keylegend list value down before going across

Kastchei — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:52:45 GMT

Thanks, Dan!