topic Re: UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list in SAS Procedures

UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list

jsberger — Thu, 30 May 2013 02:22:18 GMT

Hi All,

I've been trying to get UNIVARIATE to create a histogram with two vertical references lines of two different colors. I seem to be able to specify the location of two reference lines, with no problem...but can't seem to get two different colors to be used for the two lines individually. I was basing my attempts on the enhancements listed here:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsnew/65742/HTML/default/viewer.htm#procstatwhatsnew93.htm

Under Univariate, before 'What's Changed' it says CHREF will accommodate a list. I've tried listing several different colors, but i always get errors. Here's a simple data step to create a file, and the UNIVARIATE code i have been editing. Both lines plot with no problems, but they're always either one color, or i get an error in the log. Any help is appreciated, though i'm thinking i need to either go GPLOT or ANNOTATE (which i don't mind doing, but also don't want to do if there's an easier way as mentioned by the enhancements).

data octane;

input Expert Customer;

datalines;

94.5 92.0

94.0 88.0

94.0 90.0

93.0 93.0

88.0 88.0

;

run;

Jason

proc univariate data=octane;

histogram customer

/href=89 91 chref=red green;

run;

Re: UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list

Doc_Duke — Thu, 30 May 2013 14:13:18 GMT

Have you tried

CHREF=(red green)

? That's the format other procedures use for multiple colors.

Re: UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list

jsberger — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:00:45 GMT

I did try that, i get an error that underlines the parentheses and says 'expecting one of the following...'

Re: UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list

Reeza — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:00:51 GMT

That's the same thing I got, I'd contact Tech Support, there weren't any examples online I could find and they probably have the answer faster

Re: UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list

ballardw — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:30:12 GMT

You may need to use one of the other procedures such as SGPLOT or GCHART that give you more control over what is displayed.

Re: UNIVARIATE HISTOGRAM CHREF list

Reeza — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:01:00 GMT

The doc does specify you should be able to have multiple values in chref, just not how to