topic Re: How to Customize the Key legend PROC SGPLOT in Graphics Programming

How to Customize the Key legend PROC SGPLOT

xiong — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:50:01 GMT

I am trying to create the box plot. I want to customize the x axis label and the Key legend Text. How can I

ODS ESCAPECHAR = '^';
ods rtf file = "C:\temp\test.rtf" ; 
ods graphics on / attrpriority=none reset=all width=8.0in height=4.5in border=off;


proc sgplot data=sashelp.class noautolegend;
    styleattrs datacolors=(lightgreen lightblue)
               datacontrastcolors=(blue green)
               datasymbols=(Trianglefilled squarefilled );

    vbox height / category=sex 
                 groupdisplay=cluster 
                 name='vbox'
                 boxwidth=0.2;


    xaxis label="sex"
          offsetmax=0.12 
          labelattrs=(size=9pt weight=bold family='Arial') 
          valueattrs=(weight=bold size=9pt family='Arial');

    yaxis label="height"
          min=-10 max=100 
          values=(-10 to 100 by 10)
          labelattrs=(size=10pt weight=bold)
          valueattrs=(weight=bold size=9pt family='Arial') 
          fitpolicy=none;

    refline 0 / axis=y lineattrs=(color=grey pattern=3);

    keylegend 'vbox' / title="sex"
                     location=outside 
                     position=bottom 
                     valueattrs=(family='Arial' size=10pt)
                     titleattrs=(weight=bold family='Arial' size=10pt) 
                     noborder;
run;
ods rtf close;

achieve this?

Thank you in advance.

Re: How to Customize the Key legend PROC SGPLOT

BrunoMueller — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:42:34 GMT

Give this code a try, you might need to adapt it to your needs. It uses a format to display F as Female and M as Male. It makes use of Proc SQL to count the number F and M and write tem into a macro variable. These macro variables are then used for the legenditems.

proc format;
value $gender
 "F" = "Female"
 "M" = "Male"
 ;
run;

proc sql ;
  select
    sum(sex="F") as fCount
    , sum(sex = "M") as mCount
  into
    :fCount
    , :mCount
  from
    sashelp.class
  ;
quit;
proc sgplot data=sashelp.class noautolegend;
  format sex $gender.;
    styleattrs datacolors=(lightgreen lightblue)
               datacontrastcolors=(blue green)
               datasymbols=(Trianglefilled squarefilled );

    vbox height / category=sex 
                 groupdisplay=cluster 
                 name='vbox'
                 boxwidth=0.2;


    xaxis label="sex"
          offsetmax=0.12 
          labelattrs=(size=9pt weight=bold family='Arial') 
          valueattrs=(weight=bold size=9pt family='Arial');

    yaxis label="height"
          min=-10 max=100 
          values=(-10 to 100 by 10)
          labelattrs=(size=10pt weight=bold)
          valueattrs=(weight=bold size=9pt family='Arial') 
          fitpolicy=none;

    refline 0 / axis=y lineattrs=(color=grey pattern=3);

    legenditem TYPE=text name="fCount" / text="&fCount Females" ;
    
    legenditem TYPE=text name="mCount" / text="&mCount Males" ;
 
    keylegend "fCount"  / 
                     location=outside 
                     position=bottom 
                     noborder
;
    keylegend "mCount"  / 
                     location=outside 
                     position=bottom 
                     noborder
                     ;
     
run;

Re: How to Customize the Key legend PROC SGPLOT

xiong — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:22:57 GMT

It worked, thank you.