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Sanjay MatangeOctober 14, 2017 0

New Features in SAS 9.40M5 - Gradient fills

ODS Graphics procedures primarily strive towards the following goal: "Make simple graphs easy and complex graphs possible". SGPLOT procedure allows you create simple graphs with a single plot statement, and create complex graphs by layering together or combining multiple plot statements. Generally, the appearance follows the guidelines set by industry

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Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 12, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Two types of axis tables

Axis tables can use the SUM= option to summarize data and display means, medians, sums, and percentages. They can instead be used to display data, text, and statistics without any summarization.

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Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 9, 2017 1

Advanced ODS Graphics: Axis tables that contain special characters

This post provides a general macro that enables you to easily display special characters (Unicode) in axis table columns.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 6, 2017 2

New features with SAS 9.40 M5

SAS 9.4 maintenance release 5 was released on Sept 19, 2017. This release includes many new items including integration with SAS Viya and SAS Studio, a web application for SAS development. Also Included with this release are some cool new features in the graphics domain, some of which were requested

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Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 4, 2017 7

Introducing the new SAS/STAT lines plot

In PROC GLM and most other procedures that compute LS-means, mean comparisons are now displayed graphically. This makes comparisons between a large number of groups easier to interpret.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 1, 2017 0

Getting started with SGPLOT - Part 8 - Horizontal HighLow Plot

On a recent visit to an In-House Users Group meeting at a Pharmaceutical company, I presented a 1/2 day seminar on creating Clinical Graphs using SG Procedures. Polling the audience for their experience with these procedures indicated that many SAS users are not familiar with these new ways to create graphs. So,

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldSeptember 29, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Monotonic functions

This post shows how to use PROC SGPLOT together with PROC TRANSREG to fit monotonically increasing or decreasing functions through a scatter plot.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldSeptember 18, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Inserting a graph into a graph

You can use SG Annotation (and its GTL equivalent) to display one graph inside another.

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Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 30, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Examining and processing templates

This post shows a variety of techniques including how to use PROC TEMPLATE and the SOURCE statement, PROC SGPLOT with multiple Y-axis tables, create comparable axes in two side-by-side graphs, create a broken axis, write and use a table template that wraps text, and find and display examples of certain statements in graph templates and fonts in style templates.

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Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 14, 2017 0

Advanced ODS: Controlling precisely what output is displayed

PROC SGPLOT displays titles inside the graph. If you want to display a title inside the graph and a different title outside the graph, you can use the ODS LAYOUT or the GTL. The ODS LAYOUT gives you precise control over your output and enables you to display multiple graphs and tables in each page.

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