Splitting a Label in PROC SGPLOT

[PaigeMiller]

I am trying to create a plot via PROC SGPLOT. The variable on the Y-axis has a very long label, which SAS splits to make it fit. I want to control where the split happens, rather than let SAS control the split. The ODS ESCAPECHAR and `{newline 1} in the code produces a message in the log that I can't do it that way. Is there some other way I can cause this label to be split where I want it to be split?

1262  ods escapechar = '`';
1263  ods pdf file="&pers\test.pdf";
NOTE: Writing ODS PDF output to DISK destination "g:\MillerP\test.pdf", printer "PDF".
1264  proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
1265      scatter x=height y=weight;
1266      yaxis label='This is a very long label `{newline 1} that is probably too long';
1267  run;

NOTE: PROCEDURE SGPLOT used (Total process time):
      real time           0.72 seconds
      cpu time            0.34 seconds

NEWLINE FUNCTION NOT DEFINED IN THIS TAGSET
NEWLINE FUNCTION NOT DEFINED IN THIS TAGSET
NOTE: There were 19 observations read from the data set SASHELP.CLASS.

1268  ods pdf close;

This produces the following plot where the label is split where SAS wants to split it and not where I want to split it.

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

Perhaps:

proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
    scatter x=height y=weight;
    yaxis label="This is a very long label (*ESC*){unicode '000A'x} that is probably too long";
run;

000A is linefeed, so might be OS and or file dependent. Did not test with PDF