There are many fiddle websites that promote exchange of ideas and demonstrate sample code in a working environment.   There's a fiddle for that - https://fiddles.io - lists 40 or so, make a site so SAS can be added to the list.   If free to use sounds unpalatable, gate the site to SAS community accounts. Code the whole thing in SAS products because, well, ya got to "Eat your own dog food" (wiki)  Could be a wrapper app around a shackled but open SAS Studio login. ... View more

Add either of these options to the STEP plot statement JOIN | NOJOIN, default JOIN JOIN=true|false, default true ... View more

In a simple stacked bar chart, such as on a graph like such: proc sgplot data=sashelp.prdsale; vbar year/response=actual group=quarter groupdisplay=stack; run; It is often desired to have the response value labeled on each stacked bar.  This can be done with annotation, but it is cumbersome and causes difficulty when using SGPANEL (for example) to combine multiple charts.  Currently, datalabels create tables on top or bottom when used with stacked bar charts, but do not overlay the groups.  Instead doing this: proc sgplot data=sashelp.prdsale; vbar year/response=actual group=quarter groupdisplay=stack datalabel datalabelpos=center; run; or something like that would be simple, and as the data tip already contains this information, this should not be complex to implement. ... View more

To my understanding there is a limitation in UNIX in graphic https://support.sas.com/kb/68/196.html  there are times that we require/prefer to have certain font style such as 'Times New Roman', 'Arial' to label/annotate/with axistable to display statistical summary/text within the figure.  From SAS support example: specify the TrueType font in individual statements in the Graph Template Language code.  Here is an example: layout overlay / yaxisopts=(label="Survival Probability"  labelattrs=(family="Times New Roman") tickvalueattrs=(family="Times New Roman")) xaxisopts=(label="Time on Treatment (hours)" ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​labelattrs=(family="Times New Roman") tickvalueattrs=(family="Times New Roman")); This approach is not ideal, i.e. we need to define the font family whenever we need to display the text, that's many repeated code. I wish SAS R&D can look into this to display all of the graphics text via a custom ODS style, a mapping dataset, an annotation dataset for UNIX. PC SAS can display the proper font style via these ways. ... View more

Currently in SAS 9.4M7 it is possible to show the values of the x, y and response variable in the tooltip. These may be selected and formatted by "roles". In HEATMAPPARM one coloured rectangle represents one data row, so it would be possible to show the value of any variable in the dataset in the tooltip, e.g. some kind of unique identifier. This would be useful. Please add it. ... View more

  HREFLABELS and HREFLABPOS options are available is SAS/QC & SAS/STAT, it would be really useful to have these available is SAS/GRAPH too in order to label VREF & HREF lines easily.  Currently the only way to do this is with PROC ANNOTATE which is clumsy and difficult especially if you keep redrawing the graph and moving the reference line.   These 2 options are already written and it would make life so much easier in SAS/GRAPH if they were incorporated.    ... View more

If you use ODS HTML body="Page1.html" it will increment file names Page1, Page2, Page3, etc. You could also start with 100 and it will increment 101, 102, 103, etc.   If you use ODS GRAPHICS / imagename="Graph1" it will do this: Graph1.png, Graph11.png, Graph12.png, etc. The behavior is similar for other ways of setting the graphics file name in PROCs.   Graphics file names start with the plain name and then 1 is appended, which is then incremented to 2 and so on. This is different from ODS pages, which replace the trailing digits.   My use case is that I want to make it easier for users to find the graphics file which belongs to a page in HTML output. These two incrementing schemes make it impossible.   Please make SAS more consistent and easier to use: Allow graphics file names to increment in the same way as pages: a number at the end of the name will be incremented in place. ... View more

Develop a PNGANIM graphics device that outputs APNG content.   The options would be similar if not identical to the GIFANIM graphics device that outputs animate GIF content. ... View more

Need the ability to download multiple variables for the graphs from the Data Exploration Node – this doesn’t exist in Viya 3.5.  For example on the cross tabulation graphs when comparing the dependent variable with the inputs.  For compliance purposes we need these graphs to help with audits and why the variables selected or not selected in the model.  PDF format or PPTX format is preferred. ... View more

I work with a clinical trials group that is required to provide our funding agency and most of the journals that publish our results with either a CONSORT or a STAR-D Flowchart. Examples of such flowcharts can be found at http://www.consort-statement.org/consort-statement/flow-diagram and http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/stard/. I end up having to produce these flowcharts over and over for each study, as we often do interim analyses and begin our final analyses before all the data has been received.   The flowcharts usually have a design that can be fixed early in the coding process, but the numbers in each cell of the flowchart changes as the analysis set is finalized.   Below is one example I found through a google search. It is quite typical of the flowcharts I need to create: ... View more

When accessing help internet explorer is launched to access help online.   SAS Support say "I can confirm that the behaviour you are seeing is expected and by design. Please note that the help of some of the procedures point to a specific User's Guide, such as the SAS/STAT User's Guide in the case of the GLIMMIX procedure, and these User's Guides are not part of the offline help files that are installed on your computer. Thus, it is not possible to prevent these from being redirected to the SAS Documentation website."   There are many circumstances when working offline is essential or simply the only option due to lack of internet coverage. The change to online help from locally installed help is a regressive step which limits the functionality of SAS. ... View more