The GCHART Procedure

Example 11: Specifying the Sum Statistic in a Star Chart

Procedure features:

STAR statement options:

SUMVAR=

Other features:

FORMAT statement

Sample library member:

GCHSTSUM

[GCHSTSUM-Specifying the SUM statistic in a Star chart]

This example produces a star chart of total sales for three sites by charting the values of the character variable SITE and calculating the sum of the variable SALES for each site. It represents the statistics as slices of the star. The center of the circle represents 0 and the edge of the circle represents the largest value, in this case Paris sales. By default, the spines are joined and filled with a solid pattern to form slices, and the midpoint value and the formatted values of the sales statistics are printed beside each slice.

goptions reset=all border;

data totals;
length dept $ 7 site $ 8;
input dept site quarter sales;
datalines;
Parts Sydney 1 7043.97
Parts Atlanta 1 8225.26
Parts Paris 1 5543.97
Tools Sydney 4 1775.74
Tools Atlanta 4 3424.19
Tools Paris 4 6914.25
;

title "Total Sales";
footnote j=r "GCHSTSUM ";

proc gchart data=totals;
format sales dollar8.;
star site / sumvar=sales;
run;
quit;

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