Should I be able to use a picture format in SGPLOT?
I created a picture format using a date directive for the week number ('%W').
When I generate a scatter plot using PROC SGPLOT, the x-axis tick labels are rendered as %W instead of 01, 02, 03, etc.
However, if I use my picture format with PROC GPLOT, the x-axis tick labels are displayed correctly.
(I'm familiar with the weekw3. format, but I don't want the extra 'W' in front of every value in my x-axis -- W01, W02, W03, etc. And I need to use some specific features of SGPLOT rather than reverting to GPLOT.)
I found a few other posts on this topic, but the suggested workaround is to convert the x-axis variable to a formatted character value. I don't think my irregularly-spaced time series data will be plotted correctly if I convert all the dates to formatted characted values.
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Does anyone have any insights about using picture formats in PROC SGPLOT?
Thanks in advance...
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