The TIMEPLOT Procedure

Example 1: Plotting a Single Variable

Procedure features:

ID statement

PLOT statement arguments:

	simple plot request
	POS=

This example

uses a single PLOT statement to plot sales of refrigerators
specifies the number of print positions to use for the horizontal axis of the plot
provides context for the points in the plot by printing in the listing the values of two variables that are not in the plot.

Program

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

data sales;
   input Month Week Seller $ Icebox Stove;
   datalines;
1 1 Kreitz   3450.94 1312.61
1 1 LeGrange 2520.04  728.13
1 2 Kreitz   3240.67  222.35
1 2 LeGrange 2675.42  184.24
1 3 Kreitz   3160.45 2263.33
1 3 LeGrange 2805.35  267.35
1 4 Kreitz   3400.24 1787.45
1 4 LeGrange 2870.61  274.51
2 1 Kreitz   3550.43 2910.37
2 1 LeGrange 2730.09  397.98
2 2 Kreitz   3385.74  819.69
2 2 LeGrange 2670.93 2242.24
;

proc timeplot data=sales;
   plot icebox / pos=50;

   id month week;

   title 'Weekly Sales of Iceboxes';
   title2 'for the';
   title3 'First Six Weeks of the Year';
run;

Output

The column headers in the listing are the variables' names. The plot uses the default plotting symbol, which is the first character of the plot variable's name.

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