Increase spacing in SGPLOT legend

[ghosh · Accepted solution]

I assigned labels however, I left your code 99% intact but wrapped inside an absolute layout (could use gridded also) and specified the dimension that you can change.  You did not specify the output format so I picked pdf

 

data prim_sub_use; set xl.sheet1; 
label 
Alcohol	='^_^_Alcohol^_'
Opiates	='^_^_Opiates^_'
Cocaine	='^_^_Cocaine^_'
Marijuana='^_^_Marijuana/hashish^_'
Methamphetamine_amphetamines='^_Methamphetamine/amphetamines^_'
;
run;
ods escapechar='^';
ods _all_ close;
options nonumber nodate orientation=landscape papersize=letter nocenter
	leftmargin=.5in rightmargin=.5in topmargin=.5in bottommargin=.5in;
ods pdf file="~/img/abuse.pdf" dpi=300 notoc;
ods layout absolute;
ods region x=0in y=0in width=10in;
ods graphics on /noborder height=7.5in width=10in scale=on;
proc sgplot data=prim_sub_use noborder nowall 
		description='Primary substance use at admission, 2007-2017';
	series x=Year y=Alcohol/markers markerattrs=(symbol=CircleFilled 
		color='#0060A9' size=12) lineattrs=(color='#0060A9' thickness=3);
	series x=Year y=Opiates/markers markerattrs=(symbol=TriangleDownFilled size=12 
		color='#ed1c24') lineattrs=(color='#ed1c24' thickness=3 pattern=solid);
	series x=Year y=Cocaine/markers markerattrs=(symbol=SquareFilled 
		color='#ffc222' size=12) lineattrs=(color='#ffc222' thickness=3 
		pattern=solid);
	series x=Year y=Marijuana/markers markerattrs=(symbol=DiamondFilled 
		color='#64c069' size=12) lineattrs=(color='#64c069' thickness=3 
		pattern=solid) ; * legendlabel="Marijuana/hashish";
	series x=Year y=Methamphetamine_amphetamines/markers 
		markerattrs=(symbol=TriangleFilled size=12 color='#00a2e5') 
		lineattrs=(color='#00a2e5' thickness=3 pattern=solid);
	yaxis label='Percent of all admissions aged 12 years and older' VALUES=(0 TO 50 BY 10) offsetmax=0 offsetmin=0;
	xaxis label='Admission Year' VALUES=(2007 TO 2017 BY 1) display=(nolabel 		noticks);
	keylegend/noborder linelength=30;
run;
ods graphics off;
ods layout end;
ods pdf close;
ods _ALL_ CLOSE;

[martyvd]

Thanks, I think this will work for me.

[martyvd]

It added a light gray border despite containing the noborder option. Is there a different option I need to use to remove it?

[martyvd]

See attached. 

[ghosh]

perhaps in the ods region line add
style=[borderwidth=1 bordercolor=white];