SAS 9.3 ODS SG Graphics and Annotation – is %ANNOMAC functionality available?

[Natalie]

Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying out the annotation functionality in SG graphics and was wondering, if there are annotation macros available similar to
SAS/GRAPH and %ANNOMAC?

In the online documentation describing how to build the annotation dataset, I couldn’t find any reference to %ANNOMAC. And currenlty typing all settings manually:

DATA annods;

function="ARROW";drawspace="datavalue";x1=140;  x2=148;y1=68; y2=71;LINECOLOR="red"; OUTPUT;

function="TEXT";  drawspace="datavalue";x1=140;  x2=.;   y1=67;y2=.;  TEXTCOLOR="red"; TEXTWEIGHT="BOLD"; LABEL="outlier";OUTPUT;

RUN;

Thank you very much in advance,

Natalie

[Jay54 · Accepted solution]

Yes, %sganno macro is will be released with SAS 9.4M1.  This macro will also run with SAS 9.3 SGPLOT.  If you want to try it, we can make it available.  Note, thsi is different from the %annomac, but works the same way.

[Natalie]

Dear Sunjay,

thank you very much for the quick reply.

It’s great, that similar annotation macro functionality will be provided for SG Graphics in SAS 9.4.

I’ll clarify the need for the annotation macros whithin my team and get back to you.

Natalie

P.S. By the way, your book on SG Graphics is excellent

[BenthamLEE]

I am not so familar with the annotation functionality in SG graphics, I ususally get some free tiral image annotation version to help my document image reading and processing developing. And within my document image reading library, annotation tool can be implemented with document and image managing system to add and draw more than 10 kinds of annotatiob objects to pdf, tiff, word, excel, jpeg, bmp, gif as well as png files with simple methods and prorgamming codes.