topic Re: Font of xaxis, text box and mnior tick marks in sgplot in Graphics Programming

Font of xaxis, text box and mnior tick marks in sgplot

Samasim — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:21:09 GMT

I'm running this code in SAS:

* Series plot;
PROC SGPLOT DATA = UsGR;
SERIES X = Year Y = Overall_RBC /lineattrs =(color=red thickness =2pt);
SERIES X = Year Y = New/lineattrs =(color=blue thickness =2pt);
SERIES X = Year Y = Existing/lineattrs =(color=green thickness =2pt);
SERIES X = Year Y = Replace/lineattrs =(color=purple thickness =2pt);
XAXIS TYPE = Discrete labelattrs=(size=2);
XAXIS values =(1953 to 2016 by 2);
YAXIS LABEL = 'RBC Score';
title 'U.S. Decomposition';
RUN;

It gives me the graph I want however on the x-axis I want minor tick marks between the years (i.e 1953 (a tick mark for 1954) 1955 etc. Also I want all my xaxis years to be horizontal not slanted labels. I would also like to have textbox (legend) in the topleft if it can be done that looks like this:

Thanks!

Re: Font of xaxis, text box and mnior tick marks in sgplot

GraphGuy — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:17:23 GMT

Can you attach an example of what your graph looks like?

Re: Font of xaxis, text box and mnior tick marks in sgplot

DanH_sas — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:19:15 GMT

Setting TYPE-DISCRETE on the X axis will prevent you from displaying any axis minor tick values, as minor ticks are not applicable in that case.

If your "year" data is in date time format, remove the TYPE=DISCRETE and set INTERVAL=YEAR and MINOR.

If your "year" data is just a double column, remove the TYPE=DISCRETE and set INTEGER and MINOR.

Let me know if either of these work for you.

Re: Font of xaxis, text box and mnior tick marks in sgplot

ballardw — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 05:57:05 GMT

" I would also like to have textbox (legend) in the topleft if it can be done that looks like this".

This would be an INSET such as below:

proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
   scatter x=height y=height;
   inset  "Line 1 of inset text"
          "Line 2 of inset text"
          "Line 3 of inset text"
         /title='This is title for inset box'
   ;
run;

You show a picture that I am too lazy to type. There are options to specify text appearance and location options. The default is upper left inside the graph area.

LEGENDS are something completely different and describe such things as line color/type or marker meanings.