Boxplot

[user_38qp]

proc sgplot data=votes;
vbox savings / category=poverty;
xaxis type=discreate values=('0-10' '11-20' '21-30' '31-40' '41-50');
run;

above is the code i am using when trying to create a boxplot but it comes out blank. Any ideas why?

The dataset has a savings column and a poverty column

[ballardw]

My first thought would be the values of your category variable is a likely cause.

Is "poverty" a numeric variable that you are attempting to group into values of 1-10 for the plot? If so you might be better off with a custom format to create the groups.

Otherwise show a set of data that we can duplicate the behavior of the code with.

[user_38qp]

savings	income	poverty
57623	15768	15.2
84935	16954	13.6
83656	15532	25
61249	14820	15
75725	11120	33
75887	12015	27.1
76073	15162	18

Here is a sample of it

thank you for your assistance

[ballardw]

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@user_38qp wrote:

savings	income	poverty
57623	15768	15.2
84935	16954	13.6
83656	15532	25
61249	14820	15
75725	11120	33
75887	12015	27.1
76073	15162	18

Here is a sample of it

thank you for your assistance

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So the reason your plot failed was none of the values of poverty matched the values of the value list in the axis statement.

Try this:

proc format library=work;
value povgrp 
 0   -<11 = ' 0-10'
 11  -<21 = '11-20'
 21  -<31 = '21-30'
 31  -<41 = '31-40'
 41  -<51 = '41-50'
;
run;

proc sgplot data=votes;
   vbox savings / category=poverty;
   format poverty povgrp.;
run;

the custom format will create groups of values

[user_38qp]

Thank you it worked.