How to program the colors of your pie chart?

[leonoramillan]

Hey guys

I am trying to do a Pie figure with SAS on demand.  

How do I get a pie with the right color? I mean, a pie showing the green, when the color of my category variable is green, red when the color is red, etc. I have tried the code below, but it doesn´t work.  

Thank you in advance for your help 🙂

/*Pie chart*/

Data mydata;

Input Color $ Quantity;

Datalines;

Red 10

Yellow 40

Green 50

;

run;

title1'colors of my pie';

pattern1  color=red;

pattern2  color=yellow;

pattern3  color=green;

title1 'My pie';

proc gchart data=mydata;

pie color/ type=sum sumvar=Quantity noheader slice=outside value=inside;

run;

[SASKiwi]

Try adding this:

goptions colors=(red yellow green);

[leonoramillan]

Thank you SASKiwi. I tried both 

goptions colors=(red yellow green);

And

goptions colors=(green yellow yellow);

The first option shows the red, yellow and green colors, but not in the desired match. The second one matched the colors. BUT, how can I program (ex-ante) a specific observation of the category with a color?  Options colors=( ) seems to work randomly?

[SASKiwi]

OK, I think I've got it now. Pattern1 sets the fill, the colors then cycle through the 3 available.

goptions colors=(red yellow green);
pattern1 value = solid;

[leonoramillan]

I got this:

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

This gets the order right for me:

Data mydata;
Input Color $ Quantity;
Datalines;
Red 10
Yellow 40
Green 50
;
run;
  
title1'colors of my pie';
goptions colors=(red yellow green);
pattern1 value = solid;
 
title1 'My pie';
proc gchart data=mydata;
pie color/ type=sum sumvar=Quantity noheader slice=outside value=inside
          midpoints = 'Red' 'Yellow' 'Green';
run;

[SASKiwi]

The full answer is the slices print in alphabetic order regardless of your colour list. The MIDPOINTS option changes the slice order to match the colour order you want.

[leonoramillan]

Thank you very much SASKiwi. It worked 👌

[GraphGuy]

Here's a slightly different way of doing it - changing the order of the colors in the pattern statements, to match the alphabetical order of the colors (or whatever variable you're using for the slices).

goptions xpixels=500 ypixels=500;
goptions htitle=14pt htext=11pt ftext='albany amt/bold';

Data mydata;
Input Color $ Quantity;
Datalines;
Red 10
Yellow 40
Green 50
;
run;

title1'colors of my pie';
pattern1 color=green;
pattern2 color=red;
pattern3 color=yellow;

title1 'My pie';
proc gchart data=mydata;
pie color/ type=sum sumvar=Quantity noheader slice=outside value=inside;
run;