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A macro that translates SAS dataset into a latex table (.tex file)?

julesNY — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:48:42 GMT

Hello all!

I am a very new user of SAS and I need a macro that would essentially take my data and output it into a latex format table in a .tex file.

I know there is an ODS destination for what I would like to achieve, but for learning purposes I want to be able to sit down with the actual code to try and understand all the pieces in the macro.

I would really appreciate any help, thank you!

Re: A macro that translates SAS dataset into a latex table (.tex file)?

Reeza — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:07:30 GMT

Why a macro?

Do you have working code already?

There’s a ton of resources here to get you started otherwise

since you don’t want to use the ODS look at the older papers that will do it the manual way.

https://lexjansen.com/search/searchresults.php?q=Table%20to%20latex

@julesNY wrote:

Hello all!

I am a very new user of SAS and I need a macro that would essentially take my data and output it into a latex format table in a .tex file.

I know there is an ODS destination for what I would like to achieve, but for learning purposes I want to be able to sit down with the actual code to try and understand all the pieces in the macro.

I would really appreciate any help, thank you!

Re: A macro that translates SAS dataset into a latex table (.tex file)?

julesNY — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:12:58 GMT

Thank you for replying! So I simply have a data set and I would like use a macro to take information from the dataset and create a .tex file with the same information, but now pasted into the correct text format for a latex table.

It was an exercise in a class I once took and everyone seemed to understand how to create one and I still cannot get the hang of it. So I was hoping someone with experience would already have one or could make one easily and quickly, so that I can sit and figure out all the working parts!

I'm simply using a sample dataset that I've attached below.