topic Re: Removing Blank Columns in Proc Report in SAS Programming

Removing Blank Columns in Proc Report

michelconn — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:42:37 GMT

Is there a way to remove blank columns from a proc report? Essentially I want to remove any blank column since that is a combination that does not exist.

proc report nowindows data=mgp_Mean_Merge (where=(Matrix='Soil')) spanrows nowd;
	columns timepoint Temperature ( 'Mean (Stdev, Percent Detected)' SBvalue,sample_org,moisture,bead);
	define timepoint / group order=internal style(column)=[vjust=m just=l] format=timepoint. 'Timepoint';
	define Temperature / group order=internal format=temp. 'Temperature';
	define sample_org /  across '';
	define moisture / across '' format=wetdry.;
	define bead / across '';
	define SBvalue / group '';
run;

Re: Removing Blank Columns in Proc Report

SuryaKiran — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:30:05 GMT

If you don't want them in your report then drop those variables (variables with all missing values) before running the proc report.

Check this solution to drop variables with null values; https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Dropping-variables-with-null-values/td-p/185892

Re: Removing Blank Columns in Proc Report

ballardw — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:59:13 GMT

You might consider moving to proc tabulate as nested column/row combinations by default only have populated ones in the output assuming none of the records are actually missing the group or across variables (class in Tabulate)

Since you don't show what variable is actually analyzed I can't get more specific than that

Re: Removing Blank Columns in Proc Report

Ksharp — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:51:52 GMT

	define sample_org /  across ''  NOZERO ;
	define moisture / across '' format=wetdry.  NOZERO;
	define bead / across ''   NOZERO;

Re: Removing Blank Columns in Proc Report

michelconn — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:45:51 GMT

That worked perfect, thanks!