topic Directing procedure output to log in SAS Programming

Directing procedure output to log

MarcinP1980 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:04:02 GMT

Hi,

I would like to create a nice summary of what macro has done in the SAS log window, so users see exactly what happened. For that reason, I have prepared a dataset and would like to route it to the log window with proc report or other printing procedure.

In batch mode, this can be done with

filename outfile "location of log file";

proc printto file=outfile new;
run;

Could this be done in any way also in interactive runs? I wouldn't want to use put statements or anything like that as formatting of information becomes quite difficult. Below please see an example of what I would like to go into the log:

Package
Dependency Dependency type Version Download Status
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VIM 6.0.0 Downloaded
car Depends >=1.9.4
colorspace Depends
MASS Imports

Thanks in advance,

Marcin

Re: Directing procedure output to log

Shmuel — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:34:57 GMT

You can use same method while running SAS interactively as when running batch.

Try it.

Re: Directing procedure output to log

Tom — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:00:41 GMT

Just do the same thing. Use a temporary file if you don't need the extra copy.

filename thisrun temp; 
proc printto print=thisrun new;
run;
proc print data=sashelp.class; run;
proc printto print=print; run;
data _null_;
  infile thisrun;
  input;
  put _infile_;
run;

7922  data _null_;
7923    infile thisrun;
7924    input;
7925    put _infile_;
7926  run;

NOTE: The infile THISRUN is:

      Filename=...\#LN00057,
      RECFM=V,LRECL=32767,File Size (bytes)=1113,
      Last Modified=11Dec2020:11:59:24,
      Create Time=11Dec2020:11:59:24

SAS 9.4 on WINDOWS                                                       16:48 Monday, December 7, 2020  77

Obs    Name       Sex    Age    Height    Weight

  1    Alfred      M      14     69.0      112.5
  2    Alice       F      13     56.5       84.0
  3    Barbara     F      13     65.3       98.0
  4    Carol       F      14     62.8      102.5
  5    Henry       M      14     63.5      102.5
  6    James       M      12     57.3       83.0
  7    Jane        F      12     59.8       84.5
  8    Janet       F      15     62.5      112.5
  9    Jeffrey     M      13     62.5       84.0
 10    John        M      12     59.0       99.5
 11    Joyce       F      11     51.3       50.5
 12    Judy        F      14     64.3       90.0
 13    Louise      F      12     56.3       77.0
 14    Mary        F      15     66.5      112.0
 15    Philip      M      16     72.0      150.0
 16    Robert      M      12     64.8      128.0
 17    Ronald      M      15     67.0      133.0
 18    Thomas      M      11     57.5       85.0
 19    William     M      15     66.5      112.0
NOTE: 23 records were read from the infile THISRUN.
      The minimum record length was 0.
      The maximum record length was 107.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.06 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds