Axis label shortened when using xaxistable

[xxformat_com]

Hi,

When the axis label is displayed on more than one line, it is displayed properly unless the xaxistable statement is used.

Is there an option to avoid this behavior?

ods graphics / height=200px width=400px;

proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
    vbarbasic sex / response=height stat=mean;
    yaxis label='This is a long label on several lines to illustrate the problem';
    
   *xaxistable sex;
   *xaxistable sex / label='this is a long label' ;
run;     

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

One thing to consider when discussing sizes of graphs: PX is not standard. You PX may be larger or smaller than mine due to monitor resolution. So setting sizes in terms of PX is almost always questionable.

Second, you have not actually stated what you want as a solution. Is it to display a long label and not have an Axistable label? Display both?

You may be able to control where the Axis label splits by inserting characters such as:

proc sgplot data=sashelp.class ;
    vbarbasic sex / response=height stat=mean;
    yaxis label="This is a long label(*ESC*){unicode '000a'x} on several lines to (*ESC*){unicode '000a'x}illustrate the problem"
   ;
    
   xaxistable sex/;
   /*xaxistable sex / label='this is a long label' ;*/
run;  

The (*ESC*) is equivalent to ESCAPECHAR for inserting style elements in the places where the define Escapechar may not be recognized.

[xxformat_com]

One thing to consider when discussing sizes of graphs: PX is not standard. You PX may be larger or smaller than mine due to monitor resolution. So setting sizes in terms of PX is almost always questionable.

Good to know. What unit would you recommand? Right now, the default unit in SAS is px.

proc registry list startat="ods\ods graphics";
run;

Second, you have not actually stated what you want as a solution. Is it to display a long label and not have an Axistable label? Display both?

Well, from my tests, the long axis label issue is independant of the axis label.

I just want to be able to keep the full axis label even if axistable is used.

[ballardw]

Units would be which make sense for your work group or organization. SAS graphic procedures will accept IN CM MM and decimal values with them so are human readable and understandable though some don't do well with conversions between English and Metric units. You can also use PT, 72 dots per inch but that gets cumbersome for most uses, PCT percentage of display area which can be a good choice when using a display that will scale things.

That height/width  480 x 640 pixels happens to be an ancient VGA graphics standard that was the maximum many monitors would even attempt to display about 30 years ago and is sort of a least common denominator for displays.