Sgplot Output Has Dashed Line

[SteveNZ]

Hi all,

I am trying to produce a Sgplot graph using an example I found on the SAS website as a guide. Whenever I run it with my data or run the example given I get dashed lines around the bars. It does the first one with a solid border but subsequent ones are dashed.

I'm outputting to PDF and I've tried upping the dpi to no avail. I found a post stating that SAS 9.3 can use vector graphics but couldn't find where to tell SAS to do so. Here is the code and a screen dump of the result. Does anyone have a fix for this?

data trt;

   input PatientID $ Start_date :date9. End_date :date9. Treatment;

   format Start_date End_date date9.;

   datalines;

A   05Jan2011  31Mar2011  1

A   01May2011  01Sep2011  2

B   01Feb2011  31Aug2011  3

C   15Jun2011  15Oct2011  1

D   15Jan2011  15Mar2011  1

D   01May2011  15Sep2011  2

D   01Oct2011  15Dec2011  3

E   01Apr2011  15Nov2011  1

;

run;

    ods pdf file = "&dir\Test.pdf" notoc ;

        title1 "Treatment Time Line by Patient";

        proc sgplot data=trt;

           highlow y=PatientID low=start_date high=end_date /

                   group=Treatment

                   type=bar

                   barwidth=0.1;

           yaxis label="Patient ID" reverse;

           xaxis label="Study Time";

        run;

    ods pdf close ;

Screen Dump:

I've tried using different styles as well as various graphic options but still get the same result.

cheers

Steve

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

You may either need to try more styles or modify one. The style attribute Class GraphDataN, where n= 1 to 12 in styles has a LineStyle attribute that I believe is the source of your issue. Since the values in Styles.Default (at least in 9.2) have different line styles then you get either different lines in line graphs or borders as you show, and any style that inherits from that style without modifications to linestyle will exhibit the same behavior.

[SteveNZ]

Finally got the desired result with the 'seaside' style. Thanks for the heads up.

cheers

Steve