Here's one trick you could use with gplot ... You could annotate the monthly labels. Here's a similar example where the x-axis is by month, and I annotate the year: Worldwide Browser Popularity http://robslink.com/SAS/democd59/browser_wars_info.htm If you want, you can totally suppress the individual tickmark values by using 'value=none' on the axis statement. ... View more

Hi:   The January-June 2013 were posted to the web last week. The July-December schedule will come on line sometime in 2nd quarter 2013. But, the schedule is somewhat fluid, too. So you might check now and see a list of offerings, but then later, there might be another date added or another location added.   The best way to check offerings is to find your class of interest in the complete course list and then click on the course title. Every course's web page has the offering dates, locations, detailed course outline and even, for some of the courses (mostly beginner level), we have a self-assessment test that will tell you whether you're at the correct level of knowledge for the class.   You can find the complete course list here: https://support.sas.com/edu/courses.html?ctry=us   Or, if you are interested in the classes in a particular city, you can click on any training center "dot" on the map and you will go to the city's web site, which shows only the classes that will be offered in that training center: https://support.sas.com/edu/country.html?ctry=us   If you find that a class you're interested in doesn't appear on the schedule, there could be a few reasons for that -- the course is under revision, the course is going to be replaced completely by a new course, the course is only offered on-site or the course is a Business Knowledge Series course and the dates have not been finalized. You can always fill out the interest list form here to get your name on the list for a particular course: http://support.sas.com/training/forms/interest_us.html   If you have specific training questions, you can send email to training@sas.com for more in-depth help. Hope this helps, cynthia ... View more

dj, Inside the %str and %nrstr functions, special characters require special handling.  You found one of them:  % should be referred to as %%.  However, others are in this category as well.  ( should be referred to as %(, and ) as %).  So technically, your original macro calls should have used: stratlab1=%str(FR%(++%)), However, when the parentheses are balanced, you can often get away with omitting the % before them.  Once you added %, intending it to be a literal character, you actually changed the right parentheses by referring to it as %).  Now the parentheses appear to macro language to be unbalanced.  I consider it amazing that you actually figured out to add )))) to be able to continue processing. Hope this helps! ... View more