topic Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot in Graphics Programming

Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:02:55 GMT

Hey fellow SASers!

The other day I encounter this "rain cloud" plot idea. That one which plots: kernel density estimates, data values, and box-and-whiskers plot together. Giving a result like below:

I did some googling but couldn't find how to get one in Base SAS... So I wrote this macro named %rainCloudPlot().

Now you just write:

%rainCloudPlot(sashelp.cars,DriveTrain,Invoice)

and get a picture like the one above.

Macro is available in the BasePlus package (https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/)

Macro documentation is here: https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/packages/baseplus.md#raincloudplot-macro

I hope you will find it useful. Any feedback is welcome as well!

All the best

Bart

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

ChrisNZ — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 05:22:13 GMT

That's a great plot. Thank you Bart.

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:24:30 GMT

I'm glad you like it. 🙂

Bart

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

Quentin — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:00:47 GMT

Very nice, @yabwon ! I was shocked to see you did that with SGPLOT, and not GTL. When I started with ODS graphics, I spent the first year or so mostly using GTL. But at some point, I realized how much was possible with SGPLOT, and now I rarely write GTL. This is a great example of "if you can dream it you can make it" with SGPLOT. Very nice.

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:07:01 GMT

I did it with SGPLOT because I don't feel confident with GTL (though I would like to feel) 🙂

Bart

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

michal_1407 — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:12:55 GMT

Great job!

I will use it in my work in BAU project!

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:20:32 GMT

That's good news 🙂

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

BTAinRVA — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:30:50 GMT

Bart,

I really like the raincloud plots. However, when I run the %include packages(SPFinit.sas); I geta whole bunch of errors like those below. Any idea why? Using SAS 9.4 TS Level 1M3

WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference LT not resolved.
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference GT not resolved.
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference LT not resolved.
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference GT not resolved.
NOTE: The internal source spool file has been truncated. Error logging with line and column
information might be incomplete until next step boundary.
YHQSRC/XZPWRIT failure

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:08:19 GMT

Could you share what code did you execute?

What SAS session are you using (UTF8, latin2, wlatin2, etc)?

Could you share more log?

Did you use the code from github:

filename packages "/path/for/packages"; /* setup temporary directory for packages in the WORK */
filename SPFinit url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/main/SPF/SPFinit.sas";
%include SPFinit; /* enable the framework */

%installPackage(SPFinit)

/* %include packages(SPFinit.sas); */

%installPackage(packageName) /* install the package */
%helpPackage(packageName)    /* get help about the package */
%loadPackage(packageName)    /* load the package content into the SAS session */

Maybe write me a private message, so we could discuss and figure it out.

All the best

Bart

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

PaigeMiller — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:00:08 GMT

@yabwon

I am looking forward to trying this on "real" data!

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

BTAinRVA — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:44:52 GMT

Bart,

I tried using the code in the Getting_Started_with_SAS_Packages.pdf you posted:

filename packages "C:\Users\soj2\Documents\SAS_Packages";
%include packages(SPFinit.sas);

I'm not really sure about the SAS session. How do I find that?

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:57:38 GMT

Ok,

1) About SAS session, try to run:

%put &=sysencoding.;

2) Did you downloaded both files: SPFinit.sas and baseplus.zip into "C:\Users\soj2\Documents\SAS_Packages"?

All the best

Bart

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

BTAinRVA — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:27:14 GMT

Bart,

Yes, I downloaded SPFinit.sas and baseplus.zip into "C:\Users\soj2\Documents\SAS_Packages".

sysencoding=wlatin1

Re: Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

yabwon — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:16:51 GMT

Dear SAS community,

I updated the `%rainCloudMacro()`.

New parameters were added and the doc. was updated. You can check it out here: https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/packages/baseplus.md#raincloudplot-macro

Thank you for the feedback I've got from you! [especially to Brian (@BTAinRVA)].

I hope you will find it useful. And as usual, any more feedback is more than welcome!

All the best

Bart