The GCHART Procedure

Example 14: Charting a Discrete Numeric Variable in a Star Chart

Procedure features:

STAR statement options:

	COUTLINE=
	DISCRETE
	FILL=
	NOCONNECT
	NOHEADING
	SUMVAR=

Sample library member:

GR13N14

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This example produces two star charts that show the total number of parts that were rejected each month for a year. The STAR statement uses the DISCRETE option so that each unique value of the numeric variable DATE is a separate midpoint and has a separate spine. Each slice displays the formatted midpoint value and the chart statistic. Specifying FILL=S rotates the solid pattern through all the colors in the colors list as many times as necessary to provide patterns for all the slices.

The second chart uses the NOCONNECT option so that the chart uses spines instead of slices.

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goptions reset=global gunit=pct border cback=white colors=(black blue green red) ftext=swiss ftitle=swissb htext=3.5 htitle=6;

data rejects; informat date date9.; input site $ date badparts; datalines; Sydney 01JAN1997 22 Sydney 01FEB1997 26 ...more data lines... Paris 01NOV1997 12 Paris 01DEC1997 19 ;

title 'Rejected Parts'; footnote j=r 'GR13N14(a) ';

proc gchart data=rejects; format date worddate3.; star date / discrete sumvar=badparts noheading fill=s; run;

footnote j=r 'GR13N14(b) ';

star date / discrete sumvar=badparts noheading noconnect coutline=red; run; quit;

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