topic Re: PROC SGPLOT and its legend in Graphics Programming

PROC SGPLOT and its legend

n6 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:04:11 GMT

I want to do a Y vs X scatterplot and I want to draw a 45 degree angle line on it so the viewer and easily see what points are above or below the diagonal. Here is my code.

proc sgplot data=dataset;
scatter y=Y_var x=X_Var;
lineparm x=0 y=0 slope=1 / legendlabel = '1 to 1 Line';
yaxis label = 'Y-axis Label';
xaxis label = 'X-axis Label';
run;

Here's the problem. In the legend, in addition to labelling the 45 degree line as "1 to 1 line," it also puts the plotting symbol for the points and labels it with the variable name of the variable on the y-axis. So the legend looks like this:

"a circle" Y_var "a line" 1 to 1 Line

It mystifies me why it would put the first part. If you plot y vs x then I don't see a need to label the points with the name of the y-axis variable but SAS Help says that that indeed is what it is supposed to do.

But anyway, I looked and looked in the help for the SCATTER statement on how to undo that and couldn't figure it out then I came onto this site found the NOAUTOLEGEND statement. Okay, that's good, I missed that because I was looking for options for the SCATTER line whereas NOAUTOLEGEND goes on the PROC SGPLOT line.

So I add NOAUTOLEGEND and the problem is that it takes away the legend entrely. I want the legend to include only the second part, where it says "1 to 1 line" but it seems I get either whole legend including the first part which is unwanted or else I get no legend at all.

Any ideas on how to get a legend with only that second part?

Re: PROC SGPLOT and its legend

ballardw — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:22:07 GMT

Add the NAME option to each plot and a KEYLEGEND statement that only references the name of the plot(s) that you want to appear in the legend.

Re: PROC SGPLOT and its legend

n6 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:30:54 GMT

Hey, that worked, thanks. Actually I had already tried the NAME thing but I was usinig it incorrectly but your suggestion led me to try it again and now all is good. Thanks again.

Re: PROC SGPLOT and its legend

n6 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:39:16 GMT

To be clear to other users, here is the code that successfully produces what I want.

proc sgplot data=dataset;
scatter y=Y_var x=X_Var;
lineparm x=0 y=0 slope=1 / name='xyz' legendlabel = '1 to 1 Line';
yaxis label = 'Y-axis Label';
xaxis label = 'X-axis Label';

keylegend 'xyz';
run;