topic Re: Help with output in SAS Programming

Help with output

Pam_UMN — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:10:17 GMT

Is there any way to retain previous results after each run? I would like to scroll back and see the earlier analyses I did in the same session.

Thank you!

Re: Help with output

Tom — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:46:24 GMT

Depends on how you are "running". Are you using Display Manager? If so it doesn't remove output unless you tell it to. Are you using SAS/Studio? There is a clock icon that will show previous submissions.

Re: Help with output

Pam_UMN — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:49:29 GMT

Yes, I'm using University Edition (aka Studio), which I started using recently because I need to teach virtually during the pandemic. I've been a PC-SAS user for decades and it's a bit odd. I'll look for the clock icon...would you be able to tell me where it is? I appreciate the help!

Re: Help with output

Tom — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:36:46 GMT

Look next to the Running Man.

You can also switch to "interactive" mode where it doesn't reset everything between submits.

Re: Help with output

Pam_UMN — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:16:56 GMT

Thank you. That does bring me back to the code that generated previous output, which has some benefit. I'll do a bit more digging to find out how to keep a running compilation of results.

I appreciate your time and help.

Re: Help with output

Tom — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:53:10 GMT

Sounds like you want the interactive mode.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/12/14/sas-studio-interactive-iml.html

It is critical for using some of the interactive procedures that support run blocks (think any procedure that requires a QUIT statement to actually end).

You can also always just open multiple code windows. If you can separate the steps in your program flow into separate pieces of code then when you have finished debugging step 1 and gotten the output for it you can move to debugging step 2. While doing that if you want to refer to the output from step1 just go over to that other code window.