topic Re: Proc Report-Merging cells in SAS Programming

Proc Report-Merging cells

Ronein — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:47:56 GMT

Hello

I want to use proc report to display data.(No need to calculate because input data is ready to display).

I use proc report in order to merge data that repeat in columns:score Model .(Merging cells)

For this task I use 'group' in define statement.

I see that it is not working well because only in 'score' column it is working but in 'Model' column it is not working

Data tbl;
input Score  Model $ Customers Obligation;
cards;
0	A	5269	700
0	B	563	    2000
2	A	22712	7000
3	A	21412	4000
4	A	16766	3000
5	A	5634	1500
6	A	3169	800
7	A	2964	900
8	A	3033	800
9	A	1026	200
10	A	635	    150
11	A	4522	650
11	B	3	    20
12	A	11198	4000
12	B	53	    30
;
Run;

proc report data=tbl nowd headskip ; 
column Score Model Customers Obligation  ;
define Score / group ;   
define Model / group ;   
run ;

Re: Proc Report-Merging cells

andreas_lds — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:03:29 GMT

So, you don't get the expected output. But what exactly did you expect?

From the documentation of HEADSKIP:

This option affects only the LISTING output. It has no affect on other ODS output.

Re: Proc Report-Merging cells

Ronein — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:23:51 GMT

Thanks for you reply.

I expect that in column "Model" cells with same value (for example value "A") will be merges into one cell.

Re: Proc Report-Merging cells

andreas_lds — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:37:22 GMT

@Ronein wrote:

Thanks for you reply.

I expect that in column "Model" cells with same value (for example value "A") will be merges into one cell.

This won't happen because the values of "Score" change - i know no way to persuade ods to merge the cells, would be useful.

Re: Proc Report-Merging cells

Ronein — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:25:17 GMT

So there is not way to do it??

Re: Proc Report-Merging cells

ballardw — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:39:02 GMT

@Ronein wrote:

So there is not way to do it??

Can you provide what you would expect the output too look like with "merged cells" when there are no duplicates for the combination of score and model?

Perhaps you do not what score in that role. But Proc Report (or tabulate for that matter) aren't likely to have anything to "merge" when the combinations of values to "merge" do not have any duplicates.