PLOT

The PLOT command plots variables with plain text characters on the SHAZAM output.

In general, the format is:

  PLOT depvars indep / options 


The available options are:

Option Description
ALTERNATE Alternates the symbols 'X' and 'O' in plotting columns of the histogram when the HISTO option is used.
HISTO Plots histograms for the variables specified.
HOLD Prevents the plot from being printed.
NOBLANK Prints the previously held plot as well as the current one.
NOPRETTY Tells SHAZAM not to attempt to make axes pretty and just use the range of the data directly.
NOSAME Uses a separate page for each plot.
NOWIDE 80 columns are available for the plot.
SAME Plots depvars against the indep on the SAME plot.
WIDE 120 columns are available for the plot,
SYMBOL= Uses the user specified symbol.
XMIN=,XMAX= Specifies the desired range for the X and Y axis.
YMIN=,YMAX= Must be used with the NOPRETTY option.

In addition, the following options are available as described for the GRAPH command: RANGE, TIME, BEG=, END= and GROUPS=.