PROC SGPLOT : VALUESDISPLAY Only Displaying Some Labels (Not All)

[DanH_sas]

For the record, FITPOLICY=SPLIT does not work for LINEAR axes, due to the numeric nature of this axis type. The SPLIT policy applies only to DISCRETE axes.

[davehalltwp]

Okay, thanks, Dan.

As a test, I turned on TYPE=DISCRETE.  It indeed made the axis discrete, with evenly spaced ticks (which I don't want), but still did not split tick label and still displayed my split character.

I shouldnt experiment with embedding a line feed in the tick label text to go backdoor and get split/wrap, right?  Not sure how I would do it anyway.

Thank you...

[DanH_sas]

The SPLIT policy splits only on collision. The SPLITALWAYS policy splits regardless of collision.

[davehalltwp]

My customer is good with the STAGGER tick mark labels.  Thanks very much to Dan and everybody who helped me out.

I only have one thing left to figure out (such as below, where I have visit 7 values at study day as high as 94, but 85 is the only tick mark want for that visit, so I have to figure out how to plot the point to the right of the 85 tick mark without adding any higher tick marks).  But I will leave that until a new day.

Thank you all...

[Rick_SAS]

the simplest solution is to swap the X and Y axes. Put the long labels on the horizontal axis and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio on the horizontal axis. 

For a discussion of the advantages of plotting data like this horizontally, see "3 reasons to prefer a horizontal bar chart." The reasons apply equally well to box plots, scatter plots, and other graphs that have long labels for tick marks.

[davehalltwp]

Thank you, Rick.  I appreciate the advice, which of course I didn't think of.

I have actually finished these plots, including display of extreme study days without adding tick marks, ant the customer is happy.

Thanks to everybody for all your guidance...