Invoking the GCHART Procedure

Creating Bar and Pie Charts

Invoking the GCHART Procedure

To create a chart using the GCHART procedure, you first reference any SAS libraries that you'll access during the SAS session. Then you

invoke the procedure and specify the data set to be used
specify the physical form that you want the chart to take (horizontal bar chart, vertical bar chart, or pie chart)
identify a chart variable that determines the number of bars or pie slices to create.

General form, basic GCHART step:

PROC GCHART <DATA=SAS-data-set>;
chart-form chart-variable </ options>;
RUN;

where

SAS-data-set is the name of the SAS data set to be used.
chart-form is HBAR, HBAR3D, VBAR, VBAR3D, PIE, or PIE3D. The chart-form specifies a 2D or 3D horizontal bar chart, vertical bar chart, or pie chart, respectively.
chart-variable is the variable that determines the number of bars or pie slices.
/ (slash) indicates that options follow.
options are any valid options for the chart form specified.

The default statistic for GCHART is FREQ (frequency).

Let's look at an example of how the GCHART procedure works.