gbarline bars

[mjack]

Hello All,

Using gbarline procedure, can I group the bars or give give color to a group of bars?

I couldn't get any option to group the bars(say by year)... so thought of coloring the bars by year using the PATTERNID option. But patternid requires the use of BY statement.

By using BY statement i can color & group them but then a separate graph gets created for each value of BY variable which I dont want...

proc gbarline data=temp;

bar date1 / discrete sumvar=y1v patternid=by;

plot / sumvar=y2v axis=axis2;

by year;

run;

quit;

Can somebody pls let me know if its possible to group bars using gbarline?

[AncaTilea]

You could use a subgroup = your_variable for the bar plot.; but first you need to sort your data by that group variable.

Here is an example using the SASHELP.CLASS data set.

proc sort data= sashelp.class out = temp;by sex;

proc gbarline data = temp;

bar name / discrete sumvar = age subgroup = sex;

plot / sumvar = weight ;

run;

quit;

Best of luck.

Anca.

[mjack]

Thanks Anca, this works ...that is I get different colors for different groups....   

I had seen subgroup option creating stacked bars...so thought it wont be used to create grouped bars/or color them..  Thanks once again,Anca!!

Also , if I want to display only the subgroup values below the X-axis or M-axis then is that possible...

Like suppose, each bar represents  a month ... Jan, feb, mar....

But i dont want to display month or monYY   below each bar....   I only want to display year 2001 , 2002  below a set/group of bars for a particular year....??

DATE1	Y1V	Y2V	YEAR
1-Jan-08	1001	2	2008
1-Feb-08	1002	3	2008
1-Mar-08	1003	4	2008
1-Apr-08	1004	5	2008
1-May-08	1005	6	2008
1-Jun-08	1006	7	2008
1-Jul-08	1007	8	2008
1-Aug-08	1008	9	2008
1-Sep-08	1009	10	2008
1-Oct-08	1010	11	2008
1-Nov-08	1011	12	2008
1-Dec-08	1012	13	2008
1-Jan-09	1013	14	2009
1-Feb-09	1014	15	2009
1-Mar-09	1015	16	2009
1-Apr-09	1016	17	2009
1-May-09	1017	18	2009
1-Jun-09	1018	19	2009
1-Jul-09	1019	20	2009
1-Aug-09	1020	21	2009
1-Sep-09	1021	22	2009
1-Oct-09	1022	23	2009
1-Nov-09	1023	24	2009
1-Dec-09	1024	25	2009
1-Jan-10	1025	26	2010
1-Feb-10	1026	27	2010
1-Mar-10	1027	28	2010
1-Apr-10	1028	29	2010
1-May-10	1029	30	2010
1-Jun-10	1030	31	2010
1-Jul-10	1031	32	2010
1-Aug-10	1032	33	2010
1-Sep-10	1033	34	2010
1-Oct-10	1034	35	2010
1-Nov-10	1035	36	2010
1-Dec-10	1036	37	2010

proc gbarline data=temp;

   bar date1 / discrete sumvar=y1v subgroup=year;

   plot / sumvar=y2v axis=axis2;

   run;

quit;

[AncaTilea]

Sure, you could display only the value for the subgroup.

One dirty way to do that (given that you have exactly 12 months of data in each year) would be to assign blank values to the tick marks, and the 2008, 2009 or 2010 value for some of the tick marks.

See below:

goptions reset = all;

axis1 v = ("" "" "" "" "" "2008" "" "" "" "" "" ""

            "" "" "" "" "" "2009" "" "" "" "" "" ""

            "" "" "" "" "" "2010" "" "" "" "" "" "");

proc gbarline data=temp;

   bar date1 / discrete sumvar=y1v subgroup=year maxis = axis1;

   plot / sumvar=y2v;

run;quit;

[mjack]

Thanks Anca.... This is also helpful