Creating Custom Graphics :: SAS/GRAPH(R) 9.3: Reference, Third Edition

The Annotate Facility

The Annotate facility can also be used to generate custom graphics without using any of the SAS/GRAPH graphing procedures.

The DATA Step Graphics Interface

The DATA Step Graphics Interface provides functions and calls that produce graphics output from the DATA step, rather than from a procedure. The functions and calls are similar in form to those specified by the ISO Graphic Kernel Standard (GKS). However, the interface is not an implementation of the GKS. The form is similar enough that many GKS-compliant programs can be converted easily to run as SAS/GRAPH programs.

Graph-N-Go

To generate presentation graphs without writing any SAS/GRAPH code, you can use Graph-N-Go (not available on mainframes). You can start Graph-N-Go in several ways:

from the menus in any SAS window, select SolutionsReportingGraph-N-Go
submit either of the following from the SAS command line:
```
gng

graphngo
```
use a SAS Explorer window to directly open a GFORM entry. Double-click (or right-click and choose Open) on a GFORM entry to start a Graph-N-Go session using that entry.

Information about using the application is in Graph–N-Go help, which you can access from the application's main window in either of two ways:

select HelpUsing This Window
press F1 (this might not work in some operating environments).

You can also get help for the application by submitting the following command from the SAS command line:

help gng