Changing the orientation of the y-axis LABEL

[MarkHiltbruner]

Folks -

Trying to rotate/change the orientation of the y-axis label, for example - I want the label="hour' to show up on plot like 

H

o

u

r

I'm a fairly new SAS user, so thanks for any help I can get.  I've read all the documentation I could find, but not helpful. Figure the SAS PROs can help me out. 

Regards!

[ballardw]

Please show the code the you are currently using to create your plot. Depending on the individual procedure the are different ways and we need to know the procedure and current options.

[Ksharp]

Post it at a better place :

Graphics Programming

forum

[ChrisNZ]

With SAS/Graph you can use the rotate= and angle= options.

Moved to the graphics steam.

[MarkHiltbruner]

All -

Here's the source -

PROC SGPLOT;
BY SMF70STN YEAR MONTH;
HBAR hour/RESPONSE=lpctby
DATALABELATTRS=(FAMILY='Georgia' SIZE=8pt COLOR=red weight=bold)
DATALABEL DATASKIN=crisp
BASELINEATTRS=(THICKNESS=0)
BARWIDTH=1
FILLATTRS=(COLOR=cadetblue);
format lpctby percent8.2;
TITLE;
TITLE1 H=2.0 C=BLACK 'BIT AVERAGE LPAR USAGE';
TITLE2 H=1.5 C=BLACK 'LPAR NAME = ' C=RED ' #BYVAL1';
TITLE3 H=1.5 C=BLACK 'FOR ' C=RED ' #BYVAL3' ' / ' '#BYVAL2';
xaxis offsetmin=0 label='LPAR*Logical*Percent*Busy'
labelattrs=(size=12pt family=arial color=red weight=bold);
yaxis offsetmin=.02 offsetmax=.02
label='Hour' values= (0 to 23 by 1)
labelattrs=(size=12pt family=arial color=red weight=bold)
valueshint;
run;

Regards, Mark

[Rick_SAS · Accepted solution]

No, PROC SGPLOT does not support that option (which is sometimes called "Hotel Text") for the label.

The best I can offer is to suppress the label by using 

yaxis display=(nolabel);

and then use SG annotation to manually stack the letters for the vertical label.

[MarkHiltbruner]

Hi Rick -

Thanks for the response,  and yes, I was hoping for an easier solution.

Mark