How to label some points in a scatter plot with a character name?

[farshidowrang]

Dear programmers,

I like to give a character name in a SCATTER PLOT to some points which their position are in a certain area in the plot (with respect to X- and Y-axis).

In the following dataset, I want the points between 3<x<8 and 3<y<8 to have the label D, E, F and G.

data person;
infile datalines delimiter=',';
input name $ X Y;
datalines;
A, 1, 1
B, 2, 2
C, 3, 3
D, 4, 4
E, 5, 5
F, 6, 6
G, 7, 7
H, 8, 8
I, 9, 9
J, 10, 10
K, 11, 11
;

My code is:

%_eg_conditional_dropds(WORK.SORTTempTableSorted);

PROC SQL;
CREATE VIEW WORK.SORTTempTableSorted AS
SELECT T.X, T.Y
FROM WORK.PERSON as T
;
QUIT;
SYMBOL1
INTERPOL=NONE
HEIGHT=3pt
VALUE=CIRCLE
LINE=1
WIDTH=1

CV = _STYLE_
;
Axis1
STYLE=1
WIDTH=1
MINOR=NONE

;
Axis2
STYLE=1
WIDTH=1
MINOR=NONE

;
TITLE;
TITLE1 "Scatter Plot";
FOOTNOTE;
FOOTNOTE1 "Generated by the SAS System (&_SASSERVERNAME, &SYSSCPL) on %TRIM(%QSYSFUNC(DATE(), NLDATE20.)) at %TRIM(%SYSFUNC(TIME(), TIMEAMPM12.))";
PROC GPLOT DATA=WORK.SORTTempTableSorted
;
PLOT Y * X /
VAXIS=AXIS1

HAXIS=AXIS2

FRAME ;
RUN; QUIT;
%_eg_conditional_dropds(WORK.SORTTempTableSorted);
TITLE; FOOTNOTE;
GOPTIONS RESET = SYMBOL;

How can I modify the code to perform this job?

Best regards

Farshid Owrang 

[PeterClemmensen · Accepted solution]

If I understand you correctly, here is a way

data person;
infile datalines delimiter=',';
input name $ X Y;
datalines;
A, 1, 1
B, 2, 2
C, 3, 3
D, 4, 4
E, 5, 5
F, 6, 6
G, 7, 7
H, 8, 8
I, 9, 9
J, 10, 10
K, 11, 11
;

data temp / view=temp;
    set person;
    if 3<x<8 and 3<y<8 then text=name;
    else do; sx=x; sy=y; end;
run;

proc sgplot data=temp;
    scatter x=sx y=sy;
    text x=x y=y text=text;
run;

Result:

[farshidowrang]

Thank you very much!

Is it possible that I get the letters above the points?

Best regards

Farshid 

[PeterClemmensen]

Like this?

data person;
infile datalines delimiter=',';
input name $ X Y;
datalines;
A, 1, 1
B, 2, 2
C, 3, 3
D, 4, 4
E, 5, 5
F, 6, 6
G, 7, 7
H, 8, 8
I, 9, 9
J, 10, 10
K, 11, 11
;

data temp / view=temp;
    set person;
    if 3<x<8 and 3<y<8 then text=name;
run;

proc sgplot data=temp;
    scatter x=y y=y / datalabel=text datalabelpos=top;
run;

[farshidowrang]

Thank you very much! 

Best regards

Farshid 

[PeterClemmensen]

Anytime 🙂