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Re: SAS GTL: How to left-align x-axis table labels created by GTL axistable statement

Jay54 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:09:00 GMT

Try

VALUEJUSTIFY=AUTO | LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT

specifies the justification of the values in the axis table relative to the axis-table width.

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grstatgraph/p0v5nj3waz75w4n1s2y70echq6im.htm

Re: Need help with Annotate Arrow Function

Jay54 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:35:04 GMT

Or, you can use the VECTOR statement in SGPLOT procedure.

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grstatproc/p1wtsx90517bf4n12fpaaeh6za0l.htm

Re: Swimmer plot/proc sgplot

Jay54 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:52:09 GMT

Some examples for Swimmer Plots:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2017/10/01/getting-started-sgplot-part-8-horizontal-highlow-plot/

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2018/11/16/waterfall-graph-with-more-data-for-subject-part-2/

Re: Automating annotations for sgpanel - can it be done?

Jay54 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:10:42 GMT

The TEXT statement in SGPLOT / SGPANEL or TEXTPLOT in GTL may be the right solution for you to place text inside the graph. You could also see if the HIGHLABEL option of HIGHLOW plot can be useful for this.

Re: SGPLOT producing wrong font sizes

Jay54 — Fri, 10 May 2024 18:16:31 GMT

Try using

ods graphics on / scale=off;

See last paragraph here:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vdmmlcdc/8.1/grstatproc/n0yadqm4wsfapgn1hzekfvu1ex0g.htm

Re: x= y= or category= response=

Jay54 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:38:52 GMT

Lelia is right, the required data roles is CATEGORY.

If memory serves, waaay back in SAS 9.2, the required roles were X and Y, similar to other statements like SCATTERPLOT, etc. However, to better support the "categorizing" behavior for BARCHART, a change was made to make CATEGORY the only required role. In this case, the statement will summarize the data based frequency of category.

For backwards compatibility, an alternate was provided where one could specify both CATEGORY (or X) and RESPONSE (or Y) on the left of the '/'. Also, the CATEGORY role can be treated both as discrete or interval. Default is discrete, and each value is placed at equal interval. But if a chart is desired where the values are placed on the correct scale of a linear or date variable, then TYPE= can be specified on the axisopts option.

Or, in the equivalent SGPLOT procedure, XAXIS TYPE=TIME can be specified as shown in the example below:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2015/08/12/bar-chart-on-interval-axis-sas-9-40m3/

Re: Drawing arrow as annotation on the proc splot

Jay54 — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:56:16 GMT

Just FYI...SERIES plot also supports the arrowhead option. Different data structure.

Re: SGPLOT- Changing the Seglabel colors based on segment bar color and changing font style

Jay54 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:05:26 GMT

FYI...BACKLIGHT option is available on TEXT plot for such use cases. The label will be back lit with a contrasting color so the label will show up even if the bar and text colors match. This could simplify the solution.

Re: Sortorder in Keylegend

Jay54 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:58:32 GMT

The method described in the blog post Feb 02, 2016 allows you to define group values that may not be in the data, but need to be included in the legend. Note, this same method also controls the order in which the values are displayed in the legend as described below:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2017/11/01/legend-order-redux/

I hope you can use this method to get the legend entries in the custom order you need.

Re: Spaghetti plot with format change to indicate key event

Jay54 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:20:15 GMT

You might find some useful information here. Similar features are also available in the SGPLOT procedure.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2014/08/16/more-on-spaghetti-plots/

Re: Removing the colorbands from forestplot PROC SGPLOT

Jay54 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:52:01 GMT

Maybe remove the reflines.

Re: PROC GTL: How to circumvent the ATTRPRIORITY=COLOR option to control colors and add data to grap

Jay54 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:17:49 GMT

It seems you really have a one-cell graph. It may be much easier to use the SGPLOT procedure with the XAXISTABLE statement to create your graph. The XAXISTABLE statement allows you to place the table above or below the x-axis. LOCATION=Outside is the default.

If GTL is a must, you can run SGPLOT as in the example with a TMPLOUT= option to obtain the GTL necessary to create the graph.

See this as a general example:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2018/02/19/survival-plot-twist-using-sgplot-procedure/

Re: proc sgplot: vbar vs. vbarparm

Jay54 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:06:36 GMT

Doc:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grstatproc/n1wlslokvwlqn8n1n2mhgr5enhze.htm

Graphically Speaking Article:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2016/12/01/mixing-plots-different-classification/

Re: proc sgplot: vbar vs. vbarparm

Jay54 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:41:48 GMT

There is one other flavor called VBARBASIC, which follows the GTL BarChart features. It summarizes the data by group and class, but does not have the additional "GCHART" like features. Thus, you can combine it with more plot types.

Re: Need help with Annotate Arrow Function

Jay54 — Thu, 05 May 2022 21:40:24 GMT

The SGANNO feature uses a different data set than the SAS/GRAPH Annotation data set.

You need different variable names and values.

See: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grstatproc/n17wm229xfidj7n1nfx67jsb3yj5.htm

Also see for overview : https://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/papers/Annotate_Your_SGPLOT_Graphs.pdf

Also note, you could easily use the VECTOR plot or SERIES plot in your use case.

Re: size increase for Matrix plot.

Jay54 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:01:14 GMT

If you get log message about output size and Java VM Memory, you can try running SAS with increased Java memory.

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vdmmlcdc/8.1/lesysoptsref/n0yykr3ywhym1cn12vkjnvurxzcq.htm

-jreoptions \(-Xmx512m -Xms256m\)

Re: PROC SGPLOT : VALUESDISPLAY Only Displaying Some Labels (Not All)

Jay54 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 15:26:28 GMT

Some values may be thinned. Try setting FITPOLICY=none.

Split and wrap works for discrete axis only.

See FITPOLICY for XAXIS:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grstatproc/p07m2vpyq75fgan14m6g5pphnwlr.htm

Re: Left justified legend title and labels in PROC SGPLOT

Jay54 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:07:54 GMT

You may need to place the legend with a blank title, and add the title using SGAnnotate.

See Dan's paper: https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/277-2011.pdf

Re: Truncated Xaxistable value in PROC SGPLOT

Jay54 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:40:50 GMT

Dan has already provided a good solution. The following is just an FYI...

The underlying AXISTABLE statement in GTL provides an option to justify the values in the table. See:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/grstatgraph/p0v5nj3waz75w4n1s2y70echq6im.htm

You could use the SGPLOT TMPLOUT option to get the generated GTL code, and then make the above change to the AXISTABLE statement.

Note: This may allow you to draw the values justified left. However, this could have other side effects on the other side of the axis.

Re: 3D scatter plots in sgplot?

Jay54 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:07:22 GMT

I fully agree with Robert (GraphGuy) about the use of 3D plots to display data. If your data is really 3D, with X, Y and Z variables, then it does make sense to view it in a 3D view. You are really trying to see the shape of the data and not the actual values. The macro does this but adding axis details will only clutter it.

But, if data is 2D, one should avoid trying to view it in 3D just for the "glitz" value. See example:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2018/04/24/3d-waterfall-chart-redux/