Date:         Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:09:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Arthur Tabachneck <art297@ROGERS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arthur Tabachneck <art297@ROGERS.COM>
Subject:      Re: algorithm for nice ticmark values
Comments: To: Jim Groeneveld <jim.1stat@YAHOO.COM>

Jim,

Does the SAS macro, %label mentioned in the following paper, provide enough
direction for what you want to do?

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi25/25/cc/25p110.pdf

Art
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:02:31 -0500, Jim Groeneveld <jim.1stat@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

>Hi friends,
>
>I would like a macro to produce visually acceptable plots by auto-
>generating ticmarks at appropriate places on the X- and Y-axes, based on
>minimum and maximum X and Y values and desired approximate number of
>ticmarks. Can anyone point me to a suited piece of code (macro) generating
>the acceptable ticmarks from raw data?
>
>Regards - Jim.
>--
>Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
>Statistician/SAS consultant
>http://jim.groeneveld.eu.tf