Understanding Graphics Creation in SAS 9.2

SAS 9.2 offers you several possibilities for graph creation, some familiar and some completely new. First, traditional device-based SAS/GRAPH procedures (such as GCHART, GPLOT, and GMAP) now use ODS style templates for all ODS destinations, including the LISTING destination. Traditional SAS/GRAPH procedures fall under the category of device-based graphics, because you still use SAS/GRAPH devices and SAS/GRAPH GOPTIONS for image creation.

The new ODS Statistical Graphics framework for graph production uses template-based graphics in several new and exciting ways:

  1. Selected SAS procedures support the use of the ODS GRAPHICS ON/OFF statements to produce predefined, template-based statistical graphs.

  2. New ...

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