topic Saving, retrieving, printing output from the Results viewer and saving Graph results in SAS Programming

Saving, retrieving, printing output from the Results viewer and saving Graph results

wlierman — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:11:59 GMT

What is the best (fool-proof?) method to save the output from the Results screen / view generated in a SAS program. An example is proc freq tables results.

Similarly, if you use ODS / proc gchart how are results saved so the chart or proc freq results can be saved and sent to others as attachments in emails or teams?

Thanks.

wklierman

Re: Saving, retrieving, printing output from the Results viewer and saving Graph results

ballardw — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:55:31 GMT

@wlierman wrote:

What is the best (fool-proof?) method to save the output from the Results screen / view generated in a SAS program. An example is proc freq tables results.

Similarly, if you use ODS / proc gchart how are results saved so the chart or proc freq results can be saved and sent to others as attachments in emails or teams?

In my possibly not so humble opinion taking control of your output by directing specific output to files using ODS destinations is the most fool proof. The only change needed to most programs would be to place code inside an ods sandwich:

ods rtf file="path\filename.rtf" <other rtf related options if desired>;

ods rtf close;

The document can be sent as an attachment or what ever.

ODS RTF, Word or PDF can have graph and procedure tables both as content.

I would strongly suggest learning Proc SGPLOT or SGPANEL in place of Gchart. For one thing Gchart requires additional licensing and there are many things you can do with SGPLOT/SGPANEL just not possible without lots of work with Gchart or Gplot.

Re: Saving, retrieving, printing output from the Results viewer and saving Graph results

wlierman — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:15:49 GMT

Thank you. It will be very helpful.

wklierman