Yeah, if you mean plotting discretely, the line-markers for non-Feb/Aug months definitely don't show up - tried it already. Looks like this is not possible, in that case. It's good to know so that I don't spend additional time pondering it. Thank you! ... View more

Thanks for your response! Tried this out (removing the valuesformat= option on the xaxis statement), it gives the same issue. The user-generated format doesn't load, showing only '0B-%0y'. ... View more

Thanks for your response!  I think this might be the same issue where if I format it beforehand, I won't be able to plot it on the time type x-axis since it won't be a sasdate anymore? ... View more

Sorry, forgot to include my sgplot code: proc sgplot data= temp.figure noborder nowall pad=(left= 5pct right= 5pct) noautolegend; series x= month y= change/ lineattrs= (color= black thickness = 2) markers markerattrs= (symbol= diamondfilled color= darkblue); xaxis display=(nolabel) type= time notimesplit fitpolicy= rotate interval= semiyear values= ('01FEB2000'd to &today. by semiyear) valuesformat= MONYY5. valueattrs= (family= albany size= 12px weight=bold) offsetmin= 0 offsetmax= 0; yaxis label= 'Label' labelattrs= (family= albany weight= bold size= 9.5pt) valueattrs= (family= albany weight=bold) values= (-0.28 to 0.16 by 0.02) valuesformat= PERCENTN10.1; band x= month upper= 0.15 lower= -0.23 / fillattrs= (color= aliceblue) transparency= 0.5; refline 0 / lineattrs=(color=LIGB); run; ... View more

Thanks for your response! Yeah, I guess I meant "tricky" relative to other datasets that I easily changed to a discrete axis for.  I am trying to automate in SAS a graph produced by my organization. I basically have a dataset with a value for every month since, say, Jan 2000 until Dec 2017. I want my x axis values to be every 6 months starting with a month I choose, e.g. Feb-01 Aug-01 Feb-02 Aug-02 etc, with a line marker for every month's observation, not just Feb and Aug.  I was able to establish this with the time type x-axis statement above after some trial and error (I am new to graphing in SAS hence it was tricky) but it doesn't give me the Mon-YY formatting I want.  I can get the Mon-YY formatting I want if I drop all but Feb and Aug observations from my dataset, apply the user-defined format, and then plot discretely. But then I will lose the line-markers for non-Feb/Aug months. It's not such a big deal, but since I'm trying to replicate exactly what the organization already does and since it seems like it should be doable, I want to see if I can get both Mon-YY formatting as well as markers for every month (mutually exclusive in my trials so far). But again, not a big deal if it's not possible. Sample data would just be one record for every month from, say, Jan 2000 until Dec 2017, where month is formatted as date9 and value can be anything. I'm trying to be cautious about what I share or else I would put something here. Thanks very much! ... View more

9.4   Thanks! ... View more

Thanks very much!! Googled but somehow that option never turned up. ... View more

After playing with this I actually have a follow-up question:  Looks like picture formats may not work in sgplot: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-GRAPH-and-ODS-Graphics/Picture-Formats-Not-Rendered-in-PROC-SGPLOT/td-p/230873. Do you happen to know of any other method? Should have mentioned that one of my outputs is a graph.     Still really helpful for other outputs I'm doing, though. Thanks a bunch!     ... View more

Perfect, thank you so much!! Would have taken a long time for me to find that out on my own. ... View more

Thanks!! This worked perfectly - with one main modification, which I'll put here for others:   When I simply tried adding 'notimesplit' to the xaxis statement, I got a crazy result, where the x-axis was covered in what looked like inkblots. Then I decided to remove the 'values=' statement suggested by Reeza, b/c I figured that was the one most likely to be causing the problem. Then everything worked perfectly. Here is the solution code:   proc sgplot data= test noborder nowall; series x= month y= SA / name= "SA" legendlabel= 'test' markers lineattrs= (color= darkblue thickness = 2) markerattrs= (symbol= diamondfilled color= darkblue); series x= month y= UA / name= "UA" legendlabel= 'test' lineattrs= (color= red thickness = 2); title1 font= albany height= 11pt bold justify= right 'test'; title2 font=albany height= 10pt 'test'; title3 ' '; xaxis display=(nolabel) type= time notimesplit fitpolicy= rotate valuesformat= MONYY5. interval= month labelattrs= (family= albany size= 10px weight=bold); yaxis label= 'test' labelattrs= (family= albany weight= bold) valueattrs= (family= albany weight= bold) values= (-0.025 to 0.025 by 0.005) valuesformat= PERCENTN10.1; band x= month upper= 0 lower= -0.03 / fillattrs= (color= antiquewhite) transparency= 0.5; keylegend "SA" "UA"/ location= inside position= top valueattrs= (family= albany weight=bold) noborder; run; the only catch is, I was using this for batch mode SAS via Unix. When I tried to use the same for another set of data in Base SAS (9.4), it doesn't really work (the x-axis options, I mean). The tick values don't line up with the data points, though they were lining up before. Anyway - that's a problem for another time. Thank you!!!     ... View more

Thank you!! Tried that out, and it looks like it's getting closer to working because now only a couple of months are left off. I figured this has to do with the fact that it persistently will not rotate the tick values and by default 'thins' them for time-type axes, so I tried adding a 'FITPOLICY= ROTATE' in the xaxis statement. It gives this log note:   NOTE: TICKVALUEFITPOLICY=Rotate is ignored when SPLITTICKVALUE=TRUE. The default THIN policy is used. NOTE: Some of the tick values have been thinned.   When I googled the SPLITTICKVALUE option to change it to FALSE, it only brought up GTL/layout overlay references. So I tried adding this to my original proc template:   define statgraph series; begingraph; layout overlay/ xaxisopts=(type= time timeopts=(tickvalueformat= monyy7. splittickvalue= false)); endlayout; endgraph; end; The template was defined successfully, but I could not find how to reference it in the proc sgplot code. The 'template=' did not turn blue in EG either in the first statement or in the body of proc sgplot:   proc sgplot data= test noborder nowall template= series;   It looks like all I need to do to get this to work is to switch SPLITTICKVALUE to FALSE. Any idea on how to do this?   Thanks a million for your help! Because of you and others on this site, I'm able to do things in SAS that I knew zero about just a couple of days ago. ... View more

  proc sgplot data= test noborder nowall; series x= month y= SA / name= "SA" legendlabel= 'test' markers lineattrs= (color= darkblue thickness = 2) markerattrs= (symbol= diamondfilled color= darkblue); series x= month y= UA / name= "UA" legendlabel= 'test' lineattrs= (color= red thickness = 2); title1 font= albany height= 11pt bold justify= right 'test'; title2 font=albany height= 10pt 'test'; title3 ' '; xaxis display=(nolabel) type= discrete tickvalueformat= MONYY. /*valuesformat= MONYY.*/ interval= month labelattrs= (family= albany size= 10px weight=bold); yaxis label= 'test' labelattrs= (family= albany weight= bold) valueattrs= (family= albany weight= bold) values= (-0.025 to 0.025 by 0.005) valuesformat= PERCENTN10.1; band x= month upper= 0 lower= -0.03 / fillattrs= (color= antiquewhite) transparency= 0.5; keylegend "SA" "UA"/ location= inside position= top valueattrs= (family= albany weight=bold) noborder; run; I tried putting my dataset through datalines but was having formatting issues so finally gave up.   Thank you!   ... View more