Chapter 5

PROC TABULATE is for developing well-formatted tabular reports.

The ODS allows the programmer to tell SAS which internal tables generated during the PROC should be saved outside the PROC, and where to save them.

No special code is needed. For the PROCs that use GTL – PROC SGPLOT, PROC SGPANEL, PROC SGSCATTER, and PROC TEMPLATE used with PROC SGRENDER – the ODS is automatically deployed when running the PROC.

Since the department leader wants to write paragraphs next to the tables, the best format in which to produce the SAS report would be *.rtf, which opens in Microsoft Word. PROC TABULATE could be used to format the tables as per the department leader's specifications.

To output a list of variable names using the ODS, first, the programmer would need to recall what PROC would produce in its output. PROC CONTENTS is the commonly used PROC for outputting a list of variables in a dataset. Once the programmer identifies the appropriate...