topic Re: Tips for quick line plots? in Graphics Programming

Tips for quick line plots?

BruceBrad — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:42:45 GMT

I'm doing some exploratory plots of the form:

proc gplot;

plot v1*v2=v3;

V3 takes about 25 different values. I want to draw line plots. If I just run with the default settings I get symbols. If I add

symbol interpol=join

I get lines for the first 12 series, but just symbols for the rest.

I presume I could individually define 25 different symbol statements, but is there a quicker way? I'm after something useful for diagnostic rather than presentation purposes.

Re: Tips for quick line plots?

ballardw — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:55:52 GMT

You could try

proc sgplot;

series x=v2 y=v1 /group=v3;

run;

control of line and marker appearance are quite a bit different than the traditional graphics plot and vary as new options are added to the SG procedures with each of the last few releases.

Re: Tips for quick line plots?

BruceBrad — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:21:48 GMT

Thanks. Hadn't looked at sgplot before, but it does seem to have more sensible default values.