Order groups glm

[AnaVelloso]

I have a set of data where I am doing a Tukey's test. I woud like to change the order of how it showing in my graphs, placing first ,<12, 12, 13-15, 16 and >16. Any tip of how I can change this? 

ods graphics on;
proc glm data = incomes plots =diagnostics;
class Educ;
model Income2005=Educ ;
lsmeans Educ/stderr pdiff=all adjust=tukey;
run;

[PeterClemmensen]

Sort your data by Educ and use Order=Data in the PROC GLM Statement like this

proc sort data=sashelp.iris out=test1;
   by descending Species;
run;

proc glm data=test1 plots=diagnostics order=data;
class Species;
model SepalLength=Species;
lsmeans Species / stderr pdiff=all adjust=tukey;
run;quit;

proc sort data=sashelp.iris out=test2;
   by Species;
run;

proc glm data=test2 plots=diagnostics order=data;
class Species;
model SepalLength=Species;
lsmeans Species / stderr pdiff=all adjust=tukey;
run;quit;

Plot from first GLM:

Plot from second GLM:

[AnaVelloso]

I am having troubles to sort the data with symbols.. I am pretty new using SAS, when is numbers or alphabetic order not problem but now I have symbols and numbers  <12,  >16 how I can short the data that comes in the order <12, 12, 13-15, 16, >16?

Thank you very much!

[PeterClemmensen]

There are several ways to do this, but here is a format approach to get the sort right:

data test;
input educ $;
datalines;
<12
12
13-15
<12
12
13-15
16 
>16?
16 
<12
12
13-15
16 
>16?
>16?
;

proc format;
   value $ fmt
      '<12'    = 1
      '12'     = 2
      '13-15'  = 3
      '16'     = 4
      '>16?'   = 5
   ;
run;

proc sql;
   create table sorted as 
   select * from test
   order by put(educ, $fmt.);
quit;

Result:

educ 
<12 
<12 
<12 
12 
12 
12 
13-15 
13-15 
13-15 
16 
16 
16 
>16? 
>16? 
>16? 

[FreelanceReinh]

Hello @AnaVelloso,

Maybe it's even easier and you just need to specify order=internal in the PROC GLM statement. This would be sufficient if '<12' etc. were just formatted values of variable Educ, whose internal values (e.g., numeric values 1, 2, ...) reflected the desired sort order. (This is a common technique to avoid exactly these sorting issues.) Can you check in PROC CONTENTS output if Educ is numeric or character and whether a format is associated with it?

If, however, Educ is an unformatted character variable with values '<12' etc. you can create a view before the PROC GLM step and use this instead of another dataset:

proc sql;
create view _incomes as
select * from incomes
order by whichc(educ,'<12','12','13-15','16','>16');
quit;

ods graphics on;
proc glm data = _incomes plots=diagnostics order=data;
...