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QQPLOT (with ODS GRAPHICS) taking forever to generate graph: Warning "This graph has too many ..."

MGLondon — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:34:50 GMT

I am trying to generate a QQPLOT with ODS Graphics turned on. The dataset (crdata.mortgage) has 622489 observations and 23 variables. I am trying to generate the QQPLOT for two of the variables (FICO_orig_time and LTV_orig_time). The below is the code I am using:

/* Q-Q Plots or quantile-quantile plots */

ODS GRAPHICS ON;

PROC UNIVARIATE DATA=crdata.mortgage NOPRINT;
QQPLOT FICO_orig_time LTV_orig_time / NORMAL(MU=EST sigma=EST COLOR=lightgrey);
RUN;

ODS GRAPHICS OFF;

However, the QQPLOT is taking forever to generate. Upon stopping the code I found the warning repeated two times for both the variables "WARNING: This graph has too many graphical elements. You may not be able to get any vector graphics output and in that case, you can set your output format to an image type."

Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: QQPLOT (with ODS GRAPHICS) taking forever to generate graph: Warning "This graph has too ma

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:53:18 GMT

You might have IMAGEMAP or IMAGEFMT=SVG turned on. Try issuing:

ods graphics on / reset;

ahead of your program.

Re: QQPLOT (with ODS GRAPHICS) taking forever to generate graph: Warning "This graph has too ma

MGLondon — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:40:15 GMT

Thank you Chris for your prompt reply. I now used:

ods graphics on / outputfmt = STATIC;

to suppress the vector format. I think it does a similar job to what you were suggesting. The code took approximately 11 minutes to execute, but finally I did see the graphs generated.