template: issues with text/label in entrytitle and reference line

[Adie_efc]

I have two issues with my template code;

1) I want to have some text at the top of the plot with ID, Treatment, sex, race and age. These are variables in the dataset.

If I use the variable name in my grender code (eg as per _trt) and use the entry title below

proc sgrender data= x template=steven;

by subjid trta;

dynamic _x     = 'ady'

         _y     = 'aval'

         _var = 'paramcd'

         _trt = 'trta'

         _subj = 'subjid'

       _label ='test values'

;

run;

entrytitle halign=center "ID: " _subj  "   Treatment group: " _trt

                       /  textattrs=(size=10 family="Arial");

all I get is the text _subjid and _trt rather than the values. Ive got round it by using by variable but this ends up being stupid with 5 of them.

2) The second issue is that I want to have reference lines at the start (x=0) labelled start, one at the day they stopped (varies per pt) labelled stop and the same for when they died.

       referenceline x=0 / lineattrs=(pattern=1)  curvelabel="Start"  curvelabellocation=inside;

       referenceline x=died / lineattrs=(pattern=1) curvelabel="Died"  curvelabellocation=inside ;

       referenceline x=stop / lineattrs=(pattern=1) curvelabel="Stop" curvelabellocation=inside ;

this works fine for the x=0 line but puts the values rather than the label on the latter two.

have attached (hopefully) the program, dataset and output.

Thanks!

Adrienne M Bonwick (Adie)

[Adie_efc]

ha! Formatting the variable so all the values are Died or Stop worked for the second issue.

proc format;
value died
  low - high ='Died';
value stop
  low - high ='Stop';
run;

data x;
set x;
format died died. stop stop.;
run;

[DanH_sas]

For the first item, try this:

entrytitle halign=center "ID: " eval(colname(_subj))  "   Treatment group: " _trt

                       /  textattrs=(size=10 family="Arial");

-or-

entrytitle halign=center "ID: " eval(collabel(_subj))  "   Treatment group: " _trt

                       /  textattrs=(size=10 family="Arial");

Hope this helps!

Dan

[Adie_efc]

entrytitle halign=center "Race: " eval(collabel(_race))

                       /  textattrs=(size=10 family="Arial");

gives me the same thing Race: Race (the first example Colname) gives me Race: RACE. the value of Race is Caucasian.

[Adie_efc]

p.s. Im using 9.3.