topic Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables in SAS Programming

How to Suppress Survival Tables

altijani — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 16:54:42 GMT

I am running the following code and I have the output I am looking for (Testing Homogeneity of Survival Curves for Days_Open over Strata), and also 5 different survival output datasets. How can I suppress the production of these tables?

proc lifetest data= work.Random_Sample plots=(s) notable ALPHA=0.05;
time Days*paid;
strata type;
run ;

Thanks.

Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables

ballardw — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:01:04 GMT

Place an ODS EXCLUDE <tablenames go here>; immediately before the Proc statement or within the proc code.

You can find the names of tables either looking in the documentation for the procedure or using

ODS TRACE on;

ODS trace off;

there will be a listing of the tables generated in the log that you can then add to an ODS Exclude or Select as needed.

Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables

PaigeMiller — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:01:37 GMT

ods _all_ close;

Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables

altijani — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:20:53 GMT

Hi PaigeMiller,

Thanks for the code. It actually blocking my other graphs from coming and the tables are still there. Which code should I use to remove the code from above that you provided. It appears in all of my graph codes, and I need these graphs to show actually.
Thanks.

Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables

Rick_SAS — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:51:43 GMT

Use ballardw's method: ODS EXCLUDE ALL;

For reasons why this method is preferable to closing ODS destinations, see

http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/05/28/five-reasons-ods-exclude.html

Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables

altijani — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:14:49 GMT

Thanks. I did, but I am still facing the issue of
ods _all_ close;
even I am not using it. Any idea on how to turn this off, please?

Thanks.

Re: How to Suppress Survival Tables

Rick_SAS — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:19:20 GMT

The simplest solution is to exit SAS and restart. If for some reason you don't want to do that, then reopen the destination that you want. For example:

ODS HTML;

ODS RTF;