topic Re: How to give time intervals like Order=(mm:ss to mm:ss) in Graphics Programming

How to give time intervals like Order=(mm:ss to mm:ss)

Vish33 — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:42:44 GMT

Hi All,

I am using PROC GCHART and want to ganerate the graph in date Vs time , i googled it but i did nt get any solution , please suggest if any ideas.

can we give it in Axis statement as below.

AXIS1 Order=(mm:ss to mm:ss)

Please find the attachment and suggest on this.

Thanks,

Vish

Re: How to give time intervals like Order=(mm:ss to mm:ss)

data_null__ — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:03:08 GMT

if you look here SAS/GRAPH(R) 9.3: Reference, Third Edition

You will find the answer

value-list

For date and time values, value-list can have the following forms:

“SAS-value“i <...”SAS-value“i>”
“SAS-value”i TO “SAS-value”i <BY interval>

“SAS-value”i

is any SAS date, time, or datetime value described for the SAS functions INTCK and INTNX. Enclose the value in quotation marks and specify one of the following for i:

D: date

T: time

DT: datetime

interval

is one of the valid arguments for the INTCK or INTNX functions. These are the default intervals:

DAY: default interval for date

SECOND: default interval for time

DTSECOND: default interval for datetime

These value lists use SAS date and time values:

order=("25MAY11"d "04JUL11"d "07SEP11"d) order=("01JUL10"d to "01AUG10"d) order=("01JUL11"d to "01JAN11"d by week) order=("9:25"t to "11:25"t by minute) order=("04JUN11:12:00:00"dt to "10JUN11:12:00:00"dt by dtday)

Re: How to give time intervals like Order=(mm:ss to mm:ss)

GraphGuy — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:07:11 GMT

You mention that you're wanting to use Gchart (for bar charts, I assume?)

One important thing to know is that you'll probably want to use the 'discrete' option, so that each of the date (or time) values in your data becomes a discrete bar in your bar chart ... otherwise Gchart will probably treat them as numeric (which is what they are) and group & split them into a histogram.