Fun with SAS ODS Graphics: Rain Cloud Plot

[yabwon]

Hey fellow SASers!

The other day I encounter this "rain cloud" plot idea. That one which plots: kernel density estimates, data values, and box-and-whiskers plot together. Giving a result like below:

I did some googling but couldn't find how to get one in Base SAS... So I wrote this macro named %rainCloudPlot().

Now you just write:

%rainCloudPlot(sashelp.cars,DriveTrain,Invoice)

and get a picture like the one above.

Macro is available in the BasePlus package (https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/) 

Macro documentation is here: https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/packages/baseplus.md#raincloudplot-macro

I hope you will find it useful. Any feedback is welcome as well!

All the best

Bart

[ChrisNZ]

That's a great plot. Thank you Bart.

[yabwon]

I'm glad you like it. 🙂

Bart

[Quentin]

Very nice, @yabwon !  I was shocked to see you did that with SGPLOT, and not GTL.  When I started with ODS graphics, I spent the first year or so mostly using GTL.  But at some point, I realized how much was possible with SGPLOT, and now I rarely write GTL.  This is a great example of "if you can dream it you can make it" with SGPLOT.  Very nice.

[yabwon]

I did it with SGPLOT because I don't feel confident with GTL (though I would like to feel) 🙂

Bart

[michal_1407]

Great job!

I will use it in my work in BAU project!

[yabwon]

That's good news 🙂

B.

[BTAinRVA]

Bart,

I really like the raincloud plots. However, when I run the %include packages(SPFinit.sas); I geta whole bunch of errors like those below. Any idea why? Using SAS 9.4 TS Level 1M3

WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference LT not resolved.
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference GT not resolved.
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference LT not resolved.
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference GT not resolved.
NOTE: The internal source spool file has been truncated. Error logging with line and column
information might be incomplete until next step boundary.
YHQSRC/XZPWRIT failure

[yabwon]

Could you  share what code did you execute?

What SAS session are you using (UTF8, latin2, wlatin2, etc)?

Could you share more log?

Did you use the code from github:

filename packages "/path/for/packages"; /* setup temporary directory for packages in the WORK */
filename SPFinit url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/main/SPF/SPFinit.sas";
%include SPFinit; /* enable the framework */

%installPackage(SPFinit)

/* %include packages(SPFinit.sas); */

%installPackage(packageName) /* install the package */
%helpPackage(packageName)    /* get help about the package */
%loadPackage(packageName)    /* load the package content into the SAS session */

Maybe write me a private message, so we could discuss and figure it out.

All the best

Bart

[PaigeMiller]

@yabwon 

I am looking forward to trying this on "real" data!

[BTAinRVA]

Bart,

I tried using the code in the Getting_Started_with_SAS_Packages.pdf you posted:

filename packages "C:\Users\soj2\Documents\SAS_Packages";
%include packages(SPFinit.sas);

I'm not really sure about the SAS session. How do I find that?

[yabwon]

Ok,

1) About SAS session, try to run:

%put &=sysencoding.;

2) Did you downloaded both files: SPFinit.sas and baseplus.zip into "C:\Users\soj2\Documents\SAS_Packages"?

All the best

Bart

[BTAinRVA]

Bart,

Yes, I downloaded SPFinit.sas and baseplus.zip into "C:\Users\soj2\Documents\SAS_Packages".

sysencoding=wlatin1

[yabwon]

Dear SAS community,

I updated the `%rainCloudMacro()`.

New parameters were added and the doc. was updated. You can check it out here: https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/packages/baseplus.md#raincloudplot-macro

Thank you for the feedback I've got from you! [especially to Brian (@BTAinRVA)]. 

I hope you will find it useful. And as usual, any more feedback is more than welcome!

All the best

Bart