help with reversing colors of vbar outline, symbol and clm lines in proc sgplot vbox

[jserafy]

Any help with the code bellow would be appreciated

This code produces a box-plot with blue bars (and symbos) for the first group and red for the second group.

Is there a way to reverse the colors to red for the first group and blue for the second group?

proc sgplot data=c;
vbox ar_sav / category=timeblock nofill nooutliers notches
group=seas;
yaxis values=(0 to 2 by .5) label="SAV Cover";
xaxis label="Time period";
run;

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

The graph attributes based on a GROUP variable will typically assign the first element of the style to the first level of group encountered. So sometimes just sorting the data so the "second" group appears first will do.

Most of the graphs will also allow a GROUPORDER= option. The default is DATA which is why sorting sometimes works. Options Grouporder=Reversedata would treat group variable in reverse order so would likely work for this case. Grouporder=Ascending or Descending would display in sort order or reverse sort order of the group variable.

[jserafy]

Thanks ballardw - I'll try that.

I found another solution -  addition of this line:    styleattrs datacontrastcolors=(red blue);

Really appreciate the help.

[jserafy]

This worked too- many thanks