stacked bar chart: change order of bars (not of colors in bars)

[Sara_b]

I created a stacked bar chart with sgplot. I would like to change the order of the bars but I can only find how to change the order of the colors within the bars.

Each bar represents a region. The regions are ordered alphabetically: BE10 BE14 BE21 BE22 BE23...

I want to change this order, for example into BE22 BE10 BE21 BE23 BE25 BE34 BE31 BE33 BE35 BE32 BE14.

I can not find how to do this.

There are options like grouporder and categoryorder. But they change the order of the colors of the classes within a region but not the order of the regions.

I also tried with proc gchart but even there I could not find it. Midpoint= or order= were not working.

Many thanks!

my code:

data barchart;

input region $ class weight;

datalines;

BE22 1 4.6357615894

BE10 1 8.0536912752

BE21 1 8.59375

BE34 1 8.7719298246

BE23 1 8.9622641509

BE25 1 9.375

BE33 1 10.869565217

BE35 1 11.392405063

BE31 1 11.475409836

BE32 1 12.658227848

BE14 1 15.094339623

BE34 2 14.035087719

BE10 2 18.120805369

BE35 2 18.987341772

BE14 2 19.496855346

BE32 2 19.831223629

BE22 2 19.867549669

BE33 2 24.456521739

BE25 2 27.678571429

BE21 2 27.734375

BE23 2 29.245283019

BE31 2 34.426229508

BE32 3 10.126582278

BE31 3 14.754098361

BE10 3 16.77852349

BE23 3 16.981132075

BE14 3 18.238993711

BE21 3 19.921875

BE33 3 20.652173913

BE25 3 20.982142857

BE22 3 21.854304636

BE35 3 25.316455696

BE34 3 28.070175439

BE22 4 6.6225165563

BE10 4 6.711409396

BE21 4 7.03125

BE25 4 9.8214285714

BE33 4 10.869565217

BE32 4 11.392405063

BE35 4 11.392405063

BE34 4 12.280701754

BE14 4 14.465408805

BE23 4 15.094339623

BE31 4 18.032786885

BE31 5 1.6393442623

BE34 5 3.5087719298

BE35 5 3.7974683544

BE10 5 5.3691275168

BE21 5 6.640625

BE23 5 7.5471698113

BE33 5 7.6086956522

BE32 5 8.0168776371

BE14 5 8.8050314465

BE22 5 9.2715231788

BE25 5 9.375

BE14 6 9.4339622642

BE10 6 10.067114094

BE25 6 10.714285714

BE23 6 11.320754717

BE31 6 11.475409836

BE33 6 13.043478261

BE22 6 13.245033113

BE35 6 13.924050633

BE21 6 15.234375

BE32 6 15.611814346

BE34 6 19.298245614

BE31 7 8.1967213115

BE23 7 10.849056604

BE25 7 12.053571429

BE33 7 12.5

BE34 7 14.035087719

BE14 7 14.465408805

BE21 7 14.84375

BE35 7 15.189873418

BE32 7 22.362869198

BE22 7 24.503311258

BE10 7 34.899328859

;

run;

goptions reset=all hsize=20cm;

options dev=actximg printerpath=png nodate nonumber;

ods printer file="I:\Brol\test.png";

proc sgplot data=barchart;

vbar region / response=weight group=class ; run;

ods printer close;

[djrisks · Accepted solution]

Hi, you could apply a format to a derivation of the region variable so that it is displayed in the order you want.

For example, create another dataset that has region order you want.

data mydata2;

set mydata;

if region = "BE22" then regionn = 1;

else if region = "BE10" then regionn = 2;

....

run;

Create a format based on regionn, such as;

proc format;

value order 1 = "BE22"

                    2 = "BE10"

                    ...

                   ;

run;

Finally use regionn and the format order. in your sgplot code.