Assigning colors to bar graph using styleattrs in proc sgplot

mcmaxwell — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:47:18 GMT

Hello,

I am making a simple bar graph (2 bars) and I would like each bar to be a different color. Below is the code I used to make the data set and the graph.

data new;      
	length cPLTL $9 ;  
	input percent cPLTL @@;      
cards;      
2.19 cPLTL      
17.03 non-cPLTL       
;          
proc print data=new; run;    
   
proc sgplot data=new;        
	styleattrs datacolors=(cx66FF66 cxFF6666); 
	vbar cPLTL / response=percent groupdisplay=cluster barwidth=.4; 
	yaxis label="Percent of unsuccessful students";       
	xaxis display=(nolabel);              
	run;

My issue is that the styleattrs command is not working. Can someone please show me what I am doing wrong? I would like to use the color naming system values to specify navy blue and bright orange, but I am aware that the colors in the code above don't specify that. I would also be open to learning a simpler way of assigning colors.

Thanks!

Re: Assigning colors to bar graph using styleattrs in proc sgplot

ballardw — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:00:58 GMT

@mcmaxwell wrote:

Hello,

I am making a simple bar graph (2 bars) and I would like each bar to be a different color. Below is the code I used to make the data set and the graph.
data new;      
	length cPLTL $9 ;  
	input percent cPLTL @@;      
cards;      
2.19 cPLTL      
17.03 non-cPLTL       
;          
proc print data=new; run;    
   
proc sgplot data=new;        
	styleattrs datacolors=(cx66FF66 cxFF6666); 
	vbar cPLTL / response=percent groupdisplay=cluster barwidth=.4; 
	yaxis label="Percent of unsuccessful students";       
	xaxis display=(nolabel);              
	run;     
My issue is that the styleattrs command is not working. Can someone please show me what I am doing wrong? I would like to use the color naming system values to specify navy blue and bright orange, but I am aware that the colors in the code above don't specify that. I would also be open to learning a simpler way of assigning colors.

Thanks!

GROUPDISPLAY without a GROUP variable is hint as to what is not happening.

Add GROUP= cPLTL to the VBAR options to make each bar with a different color.

Had nothing to do with the STYLEATTRS but missing group.

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