Chapter 27: The GAREABAR Procedure

Overview

The GAREABAR procedure enables you to produce an area bar chart showing the magnitudes of two variables for each category of data. For example, the following area bar chart shows the sales total for each of three geographical sites. An additional dimension is graphed for the width variable, namely, the number of sales persons at each site. One can see from this chart that while the sales total of NY is the greatest, its number of sales people is also the greatest. In a plain bar chart, the width is the same for each bar. In an area bar chart, the width and height of each bar is determined by the value of variables .

Note: The GAREABAR procedure requires the following:

• a prior GOPTIONS statement where DEV=ACTIVEX or DEV=ACTXIMG, because PROC GAREABAR only works with the ActiveX control on a Windows system

• a prior ODS HTML statement

• a closing ODS HTML CLOSE statement.