What does PROC REPORT do? : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore)
At SAS Global Forum
in Las Vegas I was asked the question, “What does PROC REPORT do?” It
is a simple question, but I hesitated to answer. I’m normally so deep
inside the nitty gritty details of PROC REPORT that I don’t often think
about what it would be like to see and use PROC REPORT for the first
time.
What level of understanding do you assume when trying to describe SAS programming to a novice user? Where does one start when trying to
explain any procedure in SAS? The simplest answer I can give to the
question, “What does PROC REPORT do?” does not seem to cover everything
that it should. But you have to start somewhere, right? If I were
given a second chance to answer that question I would say:
PROC REPORT generates a report of the data in your data set. It can
be used to create a simple printing of the data or something more
complex. PROC REPORT can calculate statistics for numeric analysis
variables, such as the sum or mean. Also, PROC REPORT can sort and
group the data by variables in the data set. The calculations on
numeric variables can be performed at the group level or for the data
set as a whole. For more complex reports, PROC REPORT is capable of
creating new columns not in your original data set. PROC REPORT is also
capable of transposing data so a variable’s values become column
headers in the final report.
It is a basic, short answer to the question but it gives a good
starting point for learning about everything that PROC REPORT is capable
of doing.
I challenge you to share your code and what you do with others in
your office or school. It will be as much of a learning experience for
you as it will be for the person you share with. And if they share with
you what they are doing, you both have a chance to learn something new.
For more on PROC REPORT, check out my book The SAS Programmer’s PROC REPORT Handbook: Basic to Advanced Reporting Techniques. You can also read an excerpt of it online.
I want to give a special thank you for all of the folks at SAS Global
Forum who attended the SAS authors’ lunch or found me in the quad and
asked questions about my book. I appreciate all of the questions and
interest, and loved hearing stories about what you are doing with SAS.
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