Date:         Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:14:10 -0500
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <rdevenezia@WILDBLUE.NET>
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From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <rdevenezia@WILDBLUE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Labeling bubbles in proc gplot
Comments: To: niek1 <xdit301kn@googlemail.com>
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niek1 wrote:
> Hi,
> is there anything simpler than this (see below)?
>
> I want to plot three numeric variables by using bubbles. Great. Works.
> But...
...
> In order to have the legend in the bubble plot I had to do all sorts
> of exercises:
...
> Ok, I have a result. But a few things are not very good:
>
> 1. Would be nice to fill the bubble with the color of each sector
> (although it will be difficult to still see the dashed lines around
> the "negative-sized" bubbles.
> 2. Isn't there a simpler solution to label the bubbles (without all
> this greplay)?

The BUBBLE2 statement will let you mix a PLOT and BUBBLE in a single run;
BUBBLE has a great option BLABEL to automatically annotate the bubbles with
the value of the third variable.

Later, you could use annotation function PIE to create filled circles if
necessary.

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data stats;
input ms_sect $ x y percent. Bubble percent.;
datalines;
CD 4.09 9.8%  -3.7%
CS 2.95 6.5%  -0.3%
EG 4.61 11.2%  2.6%
FI 6.19 13.2% -4.4%
HC 3.53 8.2%  -5.4%
ID 3.39 8.6%  -4.7%
IT 3.01 8.6%  -6.1%
MA 2.71 9.1%   2.8%
TS 5.84 9.2%   0.5%
UT 4.28 7.2%  -2.1%
run;

ods listing;

goptions reset=all ftext='Arial';

symbol1 v=dot;

goptions goutmode=replace;

proc gplot data=stats;
  plot  y * x = ms_sect / name='sector' ;*LEGEND=legend1;
bubble2 y * x = bubble  / name='bubble' BSCALE=AREA BSize=9 bcolor=black
blabel ;
run ;
quit;

goptions goutmode=append;
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Richard A. DeVenezia