topic Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility in Graphics Programming

Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

AmitKB — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:51:46 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am having error in using annotate facility with proc gsilde. Please help.

Thanks,

Amit

data:

function	color	style	rotate	xsys	ysys	hsys	when	size	x	y
pie	green	psolid	360	2	2	3	a	0.7	0.298793402	-0.071374623
pie	green	psolid	360	2	2	3	a	0.7	0.972524828	-0.878230289
pie	green	psolid	360	2	2	3	a	0.7	1.530872005	-0.917012611
pie	green	psolid	360	2	2	3	a	0.7	0.298711887	-0.073254838
pie	green	psolid	360	2	2	3	a	0.7	0.299087504	-0.069009284

Error:

proc gslide annotate=testa;

20 run;

NOTE: ERROR DETECTED IN ANNOTATE= DATASET WORK.TESTA.

NOTE: PROBLEM IN OBSERVATION 2 -

DATA SYSTEM REQUESTED, BUT VALUE IS NOT ON GRAPH 'Y'

NOTE: PROBLEM IN OBSERVATION 3 -

DATA SYSTEM REQUESTED, BUT VALUE IS NOT ON GRAPH 'Y'

quit;

NOTE: There were 5 observations read from the data set WORK.TESTA.

NOTE: PROCEDURE GSLIDE used (Total process time):

real time 0.09 seconds

cpu time 0.10 seconds

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

GraphGuy — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:02:06 GMT

I usually use xsys='3' ysys='3', and x/y coordinates in the range 0-100 with gslides.

I've used xsys='2' ysys='2' (data coordinate system) with gplot and gmap (which have 'data'), but never tried using it with gslide. How did you come up with your x/y coordinates, and what is the "data coordinate system" for a gslide?

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

AmitKB — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:20:50 GMT

Hi Robert ,

I am a big fan of your work. looking forward to using your book.

I am trying to visualize network data. THe x and y cordinates come from proc MDS. I am using code from paper " Visualizing Healthcare Provider Network using SAS tools" by John Zheng presented at PharmaSUG2011. He provides sample code for the annotate facility to visualize network of healthcare providers.

I dont know what you mean by "data cordinate system" for a gslide.

I appreciate all your help.

Regards,

Amit

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

MikeZdeb — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:32:07 GMT

hi ... re "coordinate systems" ... take a look at ...

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/graphref/63022/HTML/default/viewer.htm#annodata-creating-grelem.htm

and scroll down to coordinates (the attached illustration is from that page)

ps by all means, by Robert's book ...

Amazon.com: SAS/GRAPH: Beyond the Basics (9781607649892): Robert Allison Ph.D.: Books

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

GraphGuy — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:42:37 GMT

I think it would be easiest for you to use 'proc gplot' rather than 'proc gslide' (at least, to start with), using your annotate data set as both the data= and the annotate=, and using a symbol statement to make your gplot markers small (or invisible). And you can use your xsys and ysys='2' like this.

Something like ...

symbol1 value=point interpol=none color=gray;

proc gplot data=testa annotate=testa;

plot y*x=1;

run;

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

AmitKB — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:43:22 GMT

Hi Mike/Rob,

Since I am using real data , the data cordinate system would be Absolute (2). Xsys and ysys also would be 2. Thats what the paper also does.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Amit

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

AmitKB — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:30:19 GMT

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the work around. It definitely helps.

I dont need the axis and also is there a way to expand the size of the plot area to space things out. I know i have too many points.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Amit

Results:

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

GraphGuy — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:09:20 GMT

You can suppress the axes using something like this...

axis1 label=none major=none minor=none value=none style=0;

proc gplot data=testa annotate=testa;

plot y*x=1 / vaxis=axis1 haxis=axis1;

run;

You might need to make the entire plot larger, so that you can see more detail. Depending on how you're generating your output, you could use something like:

goptions xpixels=1000 ypixels=1000;

Re: Error with Proc Gsilde using Annotate Facility

AmitKB — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:56:15 GMT

Thanks for your help.