I am looking for advice on how to produce quality single graphic image of grouped timelines [SAS v9.3]. Time is measured in days post-inoculation (dpi). The data are for two species each with 4 subjects. There are a couple different types of events that occur for most subjects but each at independent timings. Envisioning a single graphic image of horizontal timelines stacked vertically by subject within specie. All timelines start at same left vertical position and proceed rightward to end for each subject at the last event. Event types distinguished by different markers. I've mostly used SAS for stats. But I'm hoping I can also use it just to make this type of timeline graph. All advice greatly appreciated. Regards, Dave Here is code to produce dataset: data timeline ; input specie $ subject event dpi ; datalines; G 1 Bx-NEG 194 G 1 Bx-NEG 384 G 1 Bx-NEG 452 G 1 Bx-POS 564 G 1 ARF 648 G 1 Cx 994 G 1 Nx-POS 1057 G 2 Bx-NEG 194 G 2 Bx-NEG 384 G 2 Bx-NEG 452 G 2 Bx-POS 564 G 2 ARF 648 G 2 Cx 995 G 2 Nx-POS 1057 G 3 Bx-NEG 194 G 3 Bx-NEG 384 G 3 Bx-NEG 452 G 3 Bx-NEG 564 G 3 ARF 648 G 3 Bx-NEG 662 G 3 Bx-NEG 721 G 3 Nx-POS 748 G 4 Bx-NEG 193 G 4 Bx-NEG 383 G 4 Bx-NEG 451 G 4 Bx-NEG 563 G 4 ARF 647 G 4 Bx-POS 661 G 4 Cx 1032 G 4 Nx-POS 1056 S 1 Bx-NEG 198 S 1 Bx-NEG 387 S 1 Bx-NEG 417 S 1 Bx-NEG 452 S 1 Bx-NEG 485 S 1 Bx-NEG 583 S 1 Nx-POS 747 S 2 Bx-NEG 198 S 2 Bx-POS 387 S 2 ARF 779 S 2 Cx 849 S 2 Nx-POS 908 S 3 Bx-NEG 196 S 3 Bx-NEG 385 S 3 Bx-NEG 415 S 3 Bx-NEG 450 S 3 Bx-NEG 483 S 3 Bx-NEG 581 S 3 Bx-NEG 752 S 3 ARF 777 S 3 Nx-POS 815 S 4 Bx-NEG 192 S 4 Bx-NEG 381 S 4 Bx-NEG 411 S 4 Bx-NEG 446 S 4 Bx-NEG 479 S 4 Bx-NEG 577 S 4 Bx-NEG 748 S 4 ARF 773 S 4 Nx-POS 811 ; run; ... View more

xtGreetings, I'm am having trouble importing a csv (txt) file saved from another program. Here is my code: PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.BERNSEN_IMPORT      DATAFILE= "E:\SAMB-IHC\F89_titration\G8-G9\measure\Bernsen.txt"      DBMS=TAB REPLACE      ;      GETNAMES=YES;      DATAROW=2; RUN; Here is the problem area in the file to be imported as opened in notepad; note that the second variable increases in length from 13 to 14 as the value of "r" goes from 9 to 11: Here is the incorrectly imported datafile; not the loss of the number following "t" in the second variable: And, although the log doesn't report any problems that I can identify, there does seem to be the automatic definition of the second variable (which happens to be "Label") as length of 13. Here is a screen capture: Is there a way to improve proper import parameter setting? Thank you, Dave ... View more

Looking for help with data step coding. I've imported a very large (~22K rows) dataset output by another program as a tab delimited file. I have no trouble importing the file which consists of a class variable and several measurement variables. Unfortunately, the values of the class variable are compound and need to be parsed into two or three new variables. Here is the format and an example: compound class variable name = "Label" example: "Stack:B-r2-t5" "Stack:" is irrelevant and no need to keep "B" is shorthand for the local thresholding method used (Bernsen) "r2" is the (r)adius variable, a parameter used by the Bernsen method and in this example has a value of 2 "t5" is the (t)hreshold variable, a second parameter used by the Bernsen method and in this example has a value of 5 I don't need the method variable since I'm only looking at the Bernsen method right now. I do need to create two new variables, call them "radius" and "threshold", which respectively take on the numeric values following 'r' and 't' in the compound value of "Label". Thank you, Dave ... View more