topic Re: gplot and truncating in SAS Procedures

gplot and truncating

christyh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:36:54 GMT

Hi there,

I'm trying to plot 3 variables:

PLOT Observation * Date =assistance

The assistance data values are longer than 32 characters and I want them all in my legend. However, I'm getting the following message in the log:

NOTE: Value of IDVAR(Assistance) truncated to 32 characters

Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks,
Christy

Re: gplot and truncating

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:33:05 GMT

Hi:
This Tech Support note explains that the value is truncated to 32 characters:
http://support.sas.com/kb/00/807.html

cynthia

Re: gplot and truncating

Jay54 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:10:56 GMT

If you are using SAS 9.2, you could try using the SGPLOT procedure. See attached program.

data longgroupvalues;
set sashelp.cars;
length origin1 $65;
label origin1='Country of Origin';

select (origin);
when('USA') origin1='United State Of America, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave';
when('Europe') origin1='Europe, The Olde World';
when('Asia') origin1='Mostly East Asia and Pacific Coast Countries';
end;
run;
/*proc print data=longgroupvalues; run;*/

ods html;
title 'Fit plot with Long Group Values';
proc sgplot data=longgroupvalues;
reg x=horsepower y=mpg_city / group=origin1 degree=2;
xaxis grid;
yaxis grid;
run;
ods html close;