topic Re: ODS Output create new variable in SAS Programming

ODS Output create new variable

dsriggs1 — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:59:35 GMT

I know that ODS output has some data step capabilities such as keep, drop, and rename. Is it also possible to create a new variable/column using ODS output without having to use a data step?

Re: ODS Output create new variable

mkeintz — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:44:20 GMT

It is no more possible to generate a new variable using ODS output than it is possible to generate a new column of values in, say, the ODS HTML or ODS LISTING results. After all ODS OUTPUT is meant to redirect results of a given procedure.

Re: ODS Output create new variable

Reeza — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:57:23 GMT

Sadly no.

Re: ODS Output create new variable

WarrenKuhfeld — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:19:24 GMT

To be pedantic, you can specify data set options on the output data set name in an ODS OUTPUT statement, just as you can in data set names elsewhere (including the DATA step). There are not any DATA step capabilities in the ODS OUTPUT statement. Out of curiosity, what do you want the ODS OUTPUT statement to do that it does not already do? What is the problem with writing a DATA step? As you are developing code (and presumably making mistakes) do you really want to submit the PROC step over and over instead of a small, fast, simple, DATA step?