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Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

sfo — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:11:03 GMT

Hi,

I want to display yaxis values like 10 {superscript}0, 10 {superscript}1, 10 {superscript}2 etc .. is there a way I can put 0, 1, 2 etc as a superscript on yaxis values?

Thanks,

Re: Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

Jay54 — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:40:49 GMT

These axis tick values make sense for a log axis. Then, equally spaced tick values can have 10**2, 10**3, etc. For log axis use TYPE=log on the axis statement for SGPLOT.

It is a little harder to understand this for a linear axis, you likely have numbers like 100, 200, 300 to 800. In this case, just a 10**2, 10**3 may not suffice. Please provide more details, or attach a picture. With SAS 9.3, you can use the SGANNO facility to make such customizations.

Re: Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

sfo — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:10:12 GMT

Thanks Sanjay,

My Yaxis is log. Attached is the picture of the graph. What I want is 10 (to the power) -2 and so on ..

Re: Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

sfo — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:10:37 GMT

Also, forgot to mention that I am using SAS 9.2

Thanks

Re: Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

Jay54 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:23:07 GMT

This looks like a simple log axis available with With SAS 9.2 SGPLOT. Set axis TYPE=LOG, base 10 is default. Use LOGSTYLE option:

LOGSTYLE= LOGEXPAND | LOGEXPONENT | LINEAR. Logexpand will show you 0.1, 1, 10, 100, 1000 on the Y axis. Log exponenet will display only the exponent - -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3. With SAS 9.2, I cannot think of a way to get 10^3 like you want.

Re: Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

GraphGuy — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:45:24 GMT

SFO,

I think you'll have to hard-code each axis tickmark to use the superscript characters in gplot.

Since recent versions of SAS/Graph support unicode, you can do this using the built-in superscripted characters of a font such as "arial unicode ms". The characters and their numeric codes are described here:

Unicode subscripts and superscripts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For example, the hex code '2074'x represents a superscripted '4' and can be hard-coded as an axis tickmark as follows (this example shows how to hard-code it in the first tick mark of the y-axis):

goptions htext=3.5pct;

axis1 value=(t=1 '10' font="arial unicode ms/unicode" '2074'x);

proc gplot data=sashelp.class;
plot height*weight / vaxis=axis1;
run;

Re: Adding superscript on yaxis values in proc gplot

GraphGuy — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:54:19 GMT

Since some of the numbers you want to superscript will need a minus sign, I'll elaborate a little on that ...

The character for a superscripted 'minus' is '207b'x, and you can combine that with the superscripted number as follows:

goptions htext=3.5pct;

axis1 value=(t=1 '10' font="arial unicode ms/unicode" '207b2074'x);

proc gplot data=sashelp.class;
plot height*weight / vaxis=axis1;
run;