Under the spring of this article:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Stepping-into-the-Matrix-in-SAS/ta-p/940095
Since it is about Matrix Graphic, I think it is more efficient and suitable by using SAS/IML Matrix code .
proc iml;
want=j(400,20,' ');
alphabet =('A':'Z') || ('0':'9');
do ncol=1 to ncol(want);
n=1;
do i=1 to int(nrow(want)/20); /*the number of repeated string in a column*/
temp=j(1,sample((1:10),1),' ')||sample(alphabet,sample((1:10),1),'wor'); /*randomly generated string*/
len=ncol(temp);
want[n:n+len-1,ncol]=t(temp);
n=n+len;
end;
end;
row=row(want);
col=col(want);
temp_page=.; /* int(nrow(want)/10) is the size of a page */
temp_value=' ';
temp_row=.;
temp_col=.;
create final_want var {temp_page temp_value temp_row temp_col};
do page=1 to nrow(want)-int(nrow(want)/10);
temp_page=colvec(j(int(nrow(want)/10),ncol(want),page)); /*a page or graph has 40 rows*/
temp_value=colvec(t(want[page:page+int(nrow(want)/10)-1,]));
temp_row=colvec(t(row[page:page+int(nrow(want)/10)-1,]));
temp_col=colvec(t(col[page:page+int(nrow(want)/10)-1,]));
append ;
end;
close;
quit;
data final_want;
set final_want;
by temp_page;
if first.temp_page or missing(temp_value) then group=0;
if not missing(temp_value) then group+1;
run;
ods _all_ close;
options nobyline papersize=('5 in', '5 in') animduration=0.2 animloop=yes noanimoverlay printerpath=gif animation=start nodate nonumber;
ods printer file='c:\temp\matrix.gif';
ods graphics / width=5in height=5in antialias noborder imagefmt=GIF;
proc sgplot data=final_want aspect=1 noborder noautolegend;
by temp_page;
styleattrs backcolor=black wallcolor=black
datacontrastcolors=(white CXFFFFCC CXD9F0A3 CXADDD8E CX78C679 CX41AB5D CX238443 CX005A32 CXF0F0F0 CXBDBDBD CX636363 );
scatter y=temp_row x=temp_col/ markerchar=temp_value group=group labelstrip markercharattrs=(weight=bold);
xaxis display=none;
yaxis display=none;
run;
options printerpath=gif animation=stop;
ods printer close;
Nice. Good to see other ways of achieving the same outcome with PROC IML.
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