topic Removing display of the whole data set from output file in SAS Programming

Removing display of the whole data set from output file

dennisl — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:21 GMT

Hi,

I have a very trivial problem again. After creating a data set from a library input I perform a frequency procedure. In the SAS Output file, the frequency tables are shown after the data set has been completely listed. Is there any possible to omit the release of the complete dataset.

Data multimorbid;

set libraryxy.file;

/*** manipulation of the data ***/

....

proc frecquency;

Tables VAR;

run;

Best,

Dennis

Re: Removing display of the whole data set from output file

PGStats — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:06:42 GMT

It must be something you do in the /*** manipulation of the data ***/ part because a datastep doesn't generate a listing, unless you ask for it.

Re: Removing display of the whole data set from output file

ArtC — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:45:56 GMT

I am going to take a guess at what you want here. Take a look at the WHERE data set option. This option allows you to subset the data so that only the portion needed is used.

proc freq data=sashelp.class(where=(name<'M'));

table sex*age;

run;