remove borders from sgplot vbar legend markers : 'gcdata'=white

[mathias]

I want to remove borders from an sgplot (vbar with group=) both on the bars and in the legend.

in GraphColors template styles, I tried

'gcdata1'=white

but it's not applying to the legend ! (the border of the legend marker is black

I tried applying the same color as 'gdata1' but that doesn't work either.

I also tried to use a transparent color Affffff00 but that's not working either (btw that produces a weird bug that makes all the rest of 'gcdata2', 'gcdata3', 4... unused and 'gcdata' is then used instead for all)

My current solution is to use

'gcdata1' = CXfefefe

which is ~ok for my needs 

But that's such a strange behavior that I would like to understand.

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The plot looks like this

proc sort data=sashelp.class; by sex; run;quit;
proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
  vbar Age / group=Sex groupdisplay=cluster;
  run;

and I'm viewing it in STP output (default ods, it creates PNG's inside an html page)

[DanH_sas]

Just use the NOOUTLINE option on the VBAR statement -- no style change necessary.

Hope this helps!

Dan

[mathias]

I think I tried that and that doesn't remove the border in the legend. Will try again tomorrow to confirm or not.

[DanH_sas]

Ah, you are correct! You also have to use the AUTOOUTLINE option on the KEYLEGEND statement. That tells the legend to respond to the outline settings of the plot:

proc sort data=sashelp.class; by sex; run;quit;
proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
  vbar Age / group=Sex groupdisplay=cluster nooutline;
  keylegend / autooutline;
  run;

That should work for you.

Thanks!

Dan

[mathias]

That's probably only for 9.4.

Not working on my system (SAS9.3, EG 7.1, windows7, 64bit)

265 + keylegend / autooutline;
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ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, ACROSS, BORDER, DOWN, LOCATION, NOBORDER, POSITION, TITLE, TITLEATTRS, VALUEATTRS.
ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.