topic Controlling xaxis when using VBAR with dates in Graphics Programming

Controlling xaxis when using VBAR with dates

jteres — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:59:06 GMT

rIs it possible to control the xaxis (category axis) when using VBAR in the SG procedures? I have 40 months and want to show stacked bars where each bar height is a population and the stacks are comprised of population subcategories.

The issue is that the xaxis is unreadable. None of the xaxis options for time values are effective with VBAR.

Can I get around this with GTL? It's proving to be an enormous time sink, and I don't think that having a bar chart with time as the xaxis is that unreasonable a thing to try to do...

Thanks,

Jed

Re: Controlling xaxis when using VBAR with dates

snoopy369 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:07:50 GMT

Assuming I understand the problem you have with the xaxis, I would use a format (either a built in format or a custom one) to display the date variables as you need. For example:

data sale;
set sashelp.prdsale;
format month MONYY7.;
run;

proc sgplot data=sale;
vbar month/response=actual group=product groupdisplay=stack;
run;

If that doesn't work for you, more detail would be helpful in terms of what you want to see on the x axis.

Re: Controlling xaxis when using VBAR with dates

DanH_sas — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:11:00 GMT

If the problem is too many tick values, you can can specify FITPOLICY=THIN on the XAXIS statement to help with that.