SAS Programming by Example [12]

Chapter 12 PROC CHART Charting Your Data

Example 1 Creating a Vertical Bar Chart Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement . Create REGION vs Frequency . Data set SALES PO_NUM ITEM REGION PRICE QUANTITY 1456 HAMMER NORTH 10 5 ... PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Vertical Bar Chart"; VBAR REGION; RUN; Example 2 Creating a Horizontal Bar Chart with Statistics Features: PROC CHART, HBAR Statement PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Horizontal Bar Chart"; HBAR REGION; RUN; Example 3 Creating a Horizontal Bar Chart without Statistics Features: PROC CHART, HBAR Statement PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Horizontal Bar Chart without Statistics"; HBAR REGION / NOSTAT; RUN; Example 4 Creating a Bar Chart That Display Percentages Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement, TYPE= and PERCENT Options PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Vertical Bar Chart Showing Percents"; VBAR REGION / TYPE=PERCENT; RUN;

Example 5 Creating a Bar Chart for a Continuous Variable (System-Chosen Midpoints) Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Vertical Bar Chart for a Continuous Variable"; VBAR PRICE; RUN; Example 6 Creating a Bar Chart for a Continuous Variable (User-Chosen Midpoints by Range) Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement, MIDPOINTS=Option PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Vertical Bar Chart Demonstrating MIDPOINTS Option"; VBAR PRICE / MIDPOINTS=8 to 20 by 4; RUN; Example 7 Creating a Bar Chart for a Continuous Variable (without DISCRETE Option) Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement PROC CHART DATA=OSCAR; TITLE "Vertical Chart without DISCRETE Option"; VBAR DAY; RUN; Example 8 Creating a Bar Chart for a Continuous Variable (with DISCRETE Option) Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement, DISCRETE Option PROC CHART DATA=OSCAR; TITLE "Vertical Chart with DISCRETE Option"; VBAR DAY / DISCRETE; RUN; Example 9 Plotting Sums and Means of Numeric Variables Features: PROC CHART, VBAR STATEMENT, SUMVAR= and TYPE= Options PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Adding Options SUMVAR= and TYPE="; VBAR REGION / SUMVAR=QUANTITY TYPE=SUM; RUN;

Example 10 Representing Two Variables on One Axis Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement, GROUP= Option PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Vertical Bar Chart with GROUP= Option"; VBAR ITEM / GROUP=REGION; RUN; Example 11 Displaying Groups within a Bar -- Character Variable Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement, SUBGROUP= Option PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Vertical Bar Chart with SUBGROUP= Option"; VBAR REGION / SUBGROUP=ITEM; RUN; Example 12 Displaying Groups within a Bar -- Numeric Variable Features: PROC CHART, VBAR Statement, SUBGROUP= Option PROC CHART DATA=SALES; TITLE "Another Vertical Bar Chart with SUBGROUP= Option"; VBAR REGION / SUBGROUP=PRICE; RUN; Example 13 Creating Three-Dimensional Block Charts Features: PROC CHART, BLOCK statement DATA BLOCKEG; SET CLINICAL (KEEP=DATE ROUTINE SBP); YEAR=YEAR(DATE); RUN; PROC CHART DATA=BLOCKEG; TITLE "Example of a BLOCK CHART"; BLOCK YEAR / GROUP=ROUTINE DISCRETE; BLOCK YEAR / GROUP=ROUTINE SUMVAR=SBP TYPE=MEAN DISCRETE; FORMAT SBP 5; RUN;