Overview

SAS/IML software provides you with a powerful set of graphics commands, called graphics primitives, from which to create customized displays. Several basic commands are GDRAW (for drawing a line), GPOINT (for plotting points), and GPOLY (for drawing a polygon). With each primitive, you can associate a set of attributes such as color or line style.

In this chapter you learn about

• plotting simple two-dimensional plots

• naming and saving a graph

• changing attributes such as color and line style

• specifying the location and scale of your graph

• adding axes and text

SAS/IML graphics commands depend on the libraries and device drivers distributed with SAS/GRAPH software, and they do not work unless you have SAS/GRAPH software.