Left justified legend title and labels in PROC SGPLOT

[Chaupak]

Hi all,

I am wondering if there's any way to make the legend title and labels left justified in PROC SGPLOT, because I have a long legend title. Here is the example of my current situation:

I generated this legend using KEYLEGEND statement and put it on the upper left corner. As is shown above, I want to move "<= 5 mg/kg/day" and "> 5 mg/kg/day" to the left, which is to left justify with the legend title "xxxxxxx". Is there any way to do that? 

[Reeza]

Are you using KEYLEGEND? EDIT: You said you were 🙂

A manual kludged method assuming no one else has a better solution, what happens if you add some trailing spaces at the end of the labels, either spaces or tabs (09)? Does that force it to the left more?

"> 5 mg/kg/day                       "

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@Chaupak wrote:

Hi all,

I am wondering if there's any way to make the legend title and labels left justified in PROC SGPLOT, because I have a long legend title. Here is the example of my current situation:

I generated this legend using KEYLEGEND statement and put it on the upper left corner. As is shown above, I want to move "<= 5 mg/kg/day" and "> 5 mg/kg/day" to the left, which is to left justify with the legend title "xxxxxxx". Is there any way to do that? 

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[Chaupak]

Hi Reeza, thanks for your suggestion, but it seems like the space was trimmed when I tried.

[Reeza]

Spaces will likely be, you'll need to add tabs or a different form of white space. If you have example code to play with that would help.

[Jay54 · Accepted solution]

You may need to place the legend with a blank title, and add the title using SGAnnotate.

See Dan's paper:  https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/277-2011.pdf

[Chaupak]

I tried this way and it helps! I added the legend title using sganno manually, and adjusted the legend position using OUTERPAD= in KEYLEGEND. Thank you!

[Chaupak]

I tried using '09'x, but it still didn't work. This link says that the tab character will be converted as blanks when the codes are submitted, when using the enhance editor (if I didn't misunderstand). I think add a legend title manually using annotation may help, like what Jay recommended. Thank you!

[Ksharp]

As Reeza said ,try TAB character '09'x , NOT blank character.

[GraphGuy]

Another option is to use SAS/Graph Proc Gplot (rather than Base Proc SGplot).

Here's a short example:

legend1 position=(top left inside) across=1 
   label=(position=top 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
symbol value=none interpol=join;
proc gplot data=sashelp.stocks;
plot close*date=stock / legend=legend1;
run;