Tag: ods

Capturing output from any procedure with an ODS OUTPUT statement

There’s an old song that starts out, “You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice’s Restaurant.”  Well, maybe you are too young to know that song, but if you’re a SAS users, you’ll be glad to know that you can capture anything produced by any SAS procedure (even if the […]

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Using the ODS statement to add layers in your ODS sandwich

The ODS statement controls most aspects of how SAS creates your output results. You use it to specify the destination type (HTML, PDF, RTF, EXCEL or something else), as well as the details of those destinations: file paths, appearance styles, graphics behaviors, and more. The most common use pattern is […]

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Order Matters: A Weird Behavior of SAS ODS Style Options

The codes to push a dataset to Excel (technically XML): ods tagsets.excelxp file=”test.xls”;   *#1; ods tagsets.excelxp options( sheet_name=’test 1′); proc print data=sashelp.class noobs;     var height / style={tagattr=’format:text’} style(column)={cellwidth=.5 in}; run; *#2;  ods tagsets.excelxp options( sheet_name=’test 2′); proc print data=sashelp.class noobs;     var height / style(column)={cellwidth=.5 in} style={tagattr=’format:text’} ; run;   ods tagsets.excelxp close; […]

Using PROC SGPLOT for Quick High-Quality Graphs

Soon I will travel to San Jose for the Western Users of SAS Software 2014 Educational Forum and Conference.  I’m looking forward to doing a hands-on workshop on one of my favorite topics, ODS Graphics, specifically the PROCs SGPLOT and SGPANEL.  Here is the abstract: New with SAS 9.2, ODS Graphics introduced a whole new […]

Adding Google Web Fonts to your SAS reports

Because I began my SAS career in the Publications division, I like to think that I have a keen eye when it comes to SAS documentation. When I first visited the SAS 9.4 online documentation, I immediately noticed that it had a different look. Examine the image below; can you […]

3 Ways to Convert SAS Datasets to Plain Codes

1. If you have SAS Enterprise Guide installed Try one of Chris Hemedinger’s EG plug-ins, “Data Set to DATA Step”. Chris also wrote a post for it, Turn your data set into a DATA step program. 2. If you need to embed the dataset to SQL Clauses Use one of Eric Gebhart’s ODS tagsets, “SQL […]

SAS ODS Tagsets Guru Eric Gebhart on Github

Check it out:
https://github.com/EricGebhart

Also, his homepage:
http://ericgebhart.com/

Shameless Ad: I will have a talk on Github for SAS programmers in the forthcoming SESUG (Oct 20-23, 2013) at St.Pete Beach, FL. Welcome to drop by if you are on …