Okay, I finally got it, thanks partly to the help of you all here, especially the part about making the whisker be the same color as the background, which worked and I've come to believe is the only way to do it.  Here is my code, made generic. proc sort data=dataset;   by day2;   run; proc sgplot data=dataset; panelby day / rows=1 columns=5 novarname sort=data; rowaxis label = 'Label'  value = (0 to 20 by 5); colaxis label = 'Sex'; vbox y / category=sex nooutliers; whiskerattrs = (color=white); run; Here is some explanation.  Pretend the group variable is Day and takes values Mon Tue Wed Thu and Fri.    I made another variable named Day2 like this: if Day = 'Mon' then Day2 = '1-Mon'; if Day = 'Tue' then Day2 = '2-Tue'; if Day = 'Wed' then Day2 = '3-Wed'; etc. That is why I sorted by Day2 at the start   And then in the PANELBY line I have Sort=Data.  That tells it to list the items in the order they are in the dataset, which I just sorted by Day2.  So it lists them in the order of 1-Mon, 2-Tue, 3-Wed, etc.  Earlier in that line I have PANELBY Day.  So I'm using Mon, Tue, etc, but instead of ordering by the default of alphabetical order, which would put Fri first, it orders it by 1-Mon, 2-Tue, etc.  At the top of each column of boxplots it would have Day=Mon or Day=Tue, etc, except that I use the novarname option and that tells it to just put Mon, Tue, etc at the top of each column. I use rows=1 columns=5 to get them all on the same line.  When I didn't do that it made two rows of three, with the last one on the bottom line empty.  So I tricked it to putting them all on the same line, which made them a little narrow, but it's okay. I used value = (0 to 20 by 5) because without that the y-axis will go way up to the highest value and all the boxplots will be squished at the bottom since there are some high outliers. You can omit the label= parts in ROWAXIS and COLAXIS and it will just use the variable name as the label instead. The nooutliers option is needed because even though the whiskers are white, the outliers will still be there in black unless you tell them not to be via the nooutliers option. And WHISKATTRS = (color=white) is the coup de grace that makes the whiskers white and thus invisible against the white background. Thanks for the help.  Hopefully you can use some of the tricks in the code above to make your life easier. ... View more

I am using Version 9.4, which I meant to mention earlier. I just tried the code with the WHISKERPCT option in Proc SGPlot and I get an error. In Proc Boxplot the WHISKERPCT option works (although I call it WHISKERPERCENTILE, but I assume WHISKERPCT would work just as well.  So that gets rid of the whiskers but the problem is the points outside the box still show up. In Proc SGPanel there is a NOOUTLIERS option I can use to get rid of outliers, but the WHISKERPERCENTILE option doesn't work, so I can get rid of the dots but not the lines. If there somehow was the WHISKERPERCENTILE and the NOOUTLIERS options in the same graphing plot then I'd be all set, but I haven't been able to find it as of yet. The point about just changing the whiskers to the color of the background is pretty clever but I haven't investigated it to see if I can do it yet. As far as the groups go, yes, instead of having Groups A, B, C, D and E and Sexes Male and Females I could just use a Data Step to make groups Male A, Female A, Male B, Female B, etc.  I should have thought of that.  That is one easy answer.  But it will make 10 groups and treat them all alike if I do that.  OTOH I'm fooling with Proc SGPanel now and using proc sgpanel data=dataset;    panelby group;    vbox y / category=sex; run; Give me the 10 groups in 5 pairs, with Male and Female for Group A, then a vertical separator line, then Male and Female for Group B, etc.  So putting it into five Male/Female pairs works nice too.  But I still have the issue of not being able to get only a box with the 25th and 75th percentiles as the top and bottom.  It is after Category=Sex that I put Nooutliers, so that's nice, but I still have the darned whiskers that I can't get rid of. ... View more

Here is the general format.  The "(group)" part is just an attempt to have it put the Male and Female results side by side (which I'm discovering may be easier done in SGPANEL) but it has no effect in terms of the outliers.  If I did not have that WHISKERPERCENTILE bit I'd bet lines out the top and bottom of the box going to the max and min.  I put the WHISKERPERCENTILE and the lines coming out the top and bottom of the box go away but there are still little circles indicating the observations outside the box. proc boxplot data=dataset;    plot y * x (group);    whiskerpercentile = 25; run; ... View more

I'm running base SAS on a PC.  I didn't realize you could use ODS with SAS Graph.  I just did it with RTF and it worked fine.  The graphs were a bit squished, but that's okay and it's easy to skim through them via clicking arrows.  If we decide we want a couple of the graphs for a paper or whatever I'll reproduce them the old fashioned way that looks nicer.  I also tried making them HTMLs (with the HTML suffix in ODS instead of the RTF suffix) and I got a blank square in the output where the graph should be, so there was obviously an issue with that, but the RTF worked and therefore the HTML not working doesn't really matter. Thanks for your input. ... View more

So now I've tried just using goptions reset=all instead of that other list of options and it does give me colored lines in regular (non-HTML) graph window, but the graph has a bunch of other things weird about it that makes it no good, such as the names of the being so large that it takes up half the graph and the numbers being really big.  I guess it comes doing to figuring out what all those options do and which one is preventing the colors from showing up. ... View more

Is the date variable stored as a date or as text?  If it's text then 25Jan2010, for instance, would show up after 22Feb2010 even though you woudn't want it to. Also, you say that the dates for which there are no observations in the dataset don't show up on the x-axis.  Isn't that a good thin?  I mean, if there are 0 observations for Feb 1, 2010, wouldn't you want it to just not show up on the x-axis instead of having it say Feb 1, 2010 on the x-axis and then have a blank space above it where there is no bar because it Feb 1, 2010 wasn't in the dataset? ... View more

I just did mine again but with ODS HTML first and it opens up in the HTML window and it does indeed have colors.  But for whatever reason it is so big you can't see it all at once (and your code gave me a result like that too). But in the regular SAS Graph window the lines are black.  In the past I've been able to put colored lines in there.  And I'm not sure I want to use HTML this time anyway, especially since in this particular project I've done a lot of work for the people and their current request is "do the same graph as before but just give us colors now."  So even if it is a good idea to use HTML in general I don't want to change horses mid-stream on this project. That said, I personally just like looking at the regular output window and then perhaps if I finalize what I want outputting it to an RTF or HTML.  I think when I use HTML it creates files on my computer for it and I really don't need that when I'm working through the problem but aren't yet to the final results that I might want to send to a client. ... View more