Simple HBar Task

Example: Horizontal Bar Chart of Mileage by Origin and Type

About the Simple HBar Task

The Simple HBar task creates a simple horizontal bar chart. You can customize the title, footnotes, axes, and legends for the horizontal bar chart.

Example: Horizontal Bar Chart of Mileage by Origin and Type

To create this horizontal bar chart:

In the Tasks section, expand the Graphs folder and double-click Simple HBar. The user interface for the Simple HBar task opens.
On the Data tab, select the SASHELP.CARS data set.

Assign columns to these roles:

Role	Column Name
Category variable	Origin
Response variable	MPG_City
Group variable	Type

To run the task, click .

Here are the results:

Assigning Data to Roles

You can subset the data in the input data set by applying an SQL WHERE clause. In the Where string box, enter your valid SQL syntax. Operands that are character strings must be enclosed in single or double quotation marks. To view this WHERE clause with the resulting graph, select the Include as footnote check box.

To run the Simple HBar task, you must assign a column to the Category variable role.

Option Name	Description
Role
Category variable	specifies the variable that classifies the observations into distinct subsets.
Response variable	specifies a numeric response variable for the plot.
Group variable	specifies a variable that is used to group the data.
URL variable	specifies a character variable that contains URLs for web pages to be displayed when parts of the plot are selected within an HTML page.
Group Layout
Cluster	displays group values as separate adjacent bars that replace the single category bar. Each set of group values is centered at the midpoint tick mark for the category.
Stack	overlays group values without any clustering. Each group is represented by unique visual attributes that are derived from the GraphData1... GraphDatan style elements in the current style.
Statistics
Mean	calculates the mean of the response variable.
Sum	calculates the sum of the response variable.

Setting Options

Option Name	Description
Title and Footnote
You can specify a custom title and footnote for the output. You can also specify the font size for this text.
Bar Details
Apply bar color	specifies the color for the bars when a column is not assigned to the Group variable role.
Transparency	specifies the degree of transparency for the plot. The range is 0 (completely opaque) to 1 (completely transparent).
Apply bar gradient	applies a gradient to each bar. Note: This option is available only if you are running the second maintenance release for SAS 9.4 or later.
Data skin	specifies a special effect to be used on all filled bars.
Bar Labels
Show bar labels	displays the values of the calculated response as data labels.
Category Axis
Reverse	specifies that the values of the tick marks are displayed in reverse (descending) order.
Show values in data order	places the discrete tick values in the order in which they appear in the data.
Show label	enables you to display a label for the axis. Enter this label in the Custom label box.
Response Axis
Show grid	creates grid lines at each tick on the axis.
Drop statistics suffix	removes the name of the calculated statistic in the axis label. For example, if you are calculating the mean, the axis label could be Weight (Mean).
Custom Label	enables you to customize the label for the response axis. By default, the axis label is the name of the variable.
Legend Details
Legend location	specifies whether the legend is placed outside or inside of the axis area.
Graph Size
You can specify the width and height of the graph in inches, centimeters, or pixels.