Hi All,
I'm using SAS 9.3 GTL to make a graph that overlays a box plot and a series plot. The series plot uses curvelabel with curvelocation=inside curvelabelposition=end. Problem is that sometimes the label for the series appears on top of the last box. (collision of sorts) I would like it to appear in white space to the right.
Is there some way for me to offset the curvelabel a bit to the right, so that it would not overlay the box (without using curvelocation=outside)? I guess this could be hard, because the seriesplot doesn't know about the boxplot. I can't use curvelocation=outside because in real code this graph is part of a layout lattice cell.
Would settle for hard coding some non-printable white space character, if there is a good way to do that, which would work for html/pdf/rtf destinations. Something like "curvelabel=%str( )Limit".
Sample code below.
Thanks,
--Q.
proc template; define statgraph TryBox; begingraph; layout overlay; boxplot x=sex y=Height ; seriesplot x=sex y=LimitLine / curvelabel="Limit" curvelabellocation=inside curvelabelposition=end ; endlayout; endgraph; end; run; data class; set sashelp.class; LimitLine=60; run; proc sort data=class;by sex;run; proc sgrender data=class template=TryBox; run;
With 9.3 I would look up annotating graphs. The annotate facility will let you pick locations and text displayed.
Or Start by generating the graph, without the curvelabel, use the ODS graphics editor to add the text desired.
One quick fix for this case is to use enough leading non-breaking spaces in your curve label. I create a label with 20 leading nbsp. But that takes your label far from the line itself. Maybe use a legend to identify the line?
data _null_;
lbl='....................Limit';
lbl=translate(lbl, 'A0'x, '.');
call symput ("lbl", lbl);
run;
proc template;
define statgraph TryBox;
begingraph;
layout overlay;
boxplot x=sex y=Height ;
seriesplot x=sex y=LimitLine /
curvelabel="&lbl"
curvelabellocation=inside
curvelabelposition=end
;
endlayout;
endgraph;
end;
run;
data class;
set sashelp.class;
LimitLine=60;
run;
proc sort data=class;by sex;run;
proc sgrender data=class template=TryBox;
run;
Thanks Sanjay, I'll play with that. In the real setting the boxes are narrower, so I should only need a handful of non-breaking spaces. The labels should be close enough.
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