topic Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT in SAS Programming

Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

tburus — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:21:40 GMT

Is it possible to have PROC REPORT only add horizontal lines between the first set of group variables in the call? I have the following code:

proc report data=top_inj_pct(where=(event_type=2)) spanrows
		style(report)=[frame=hsides rules=rows]
		style(header)=[background=white color=&Dblack.]
		style(lines)=[background=white];
	column injury_or_illness_code injpct TL_pct top_mech top_act;
	define injury_or_illness_code / group left 'Injury' order=data
		style(column)=[cellwidth=2in];
	define injpct / group 'Of All Injuries' style(column)=[just=c];
	define TL_pct / group 'Resulting in Time Loss*' style(column)=[just=c];
	define top_mech / group "Common Injury Mechanisms" order=data;
	define top_act / group "Common Activities" order=data;
run;

This produces the following output:

I would like to have the lines that span the table, without getting the additional lines on the right side. Thanks.

Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

ballardw — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:28:43 GMT

Which ODS style are you using?

Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

tburus — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:23:46 GMT

I am using ODS RTF

Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

ghosh — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:59:04 GMT

Could you provide some data to test?

For starters remove rules=rows in line 2

Then perhaps apply a style to the first group using a compute block, such as:

compute after injury_or_illness_code /
        style={borderbottomwidth=1pt borderbottomcolor=black};
  line ' ';
endcomp;

Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

ballardw — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:50:33 GMT

@tburus wrote:
I ma using ODS RTF

That is your ODS destination. The Style controls the colors and appearance of lines and text.

Without any data it is also hard to test code.

I would suggest that possibly you could try making your Top_mech and top_act variables Order variables as I don't see anything appearing to the right of them than needs to be "grouped".

Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

tburus — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:34:10 GMT

Sorry, I was working to quickly and misread the question. I am using the default style.

My output doesn't change if I change these into order variables. Even if I turn everything into order variables, the output doesn't change. I tried using group only on the first variable ("injury_or_illness_code") and then "rules=groups", but this gave me no horizontal lines inside the table.

Re: Add horizontal lines only between primary groups in PROC REPORT

ballardw — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:51:52 GMT

You might see what the JOURNAL style does to the output.

You can specify a different style than your current default on a the proc statement such as

Proc report data=... style=Journal.

No promises without actual data.

Instructions here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/How-to-create-a-data-step-version-of-your-data-AKA-generate/ta-p/258712 will show how to turn an existing SAS data set into data step code that can be pasted into a forum code box using the </> icon or attached as text to show exactly what you have and that we can test code against.