topic Export SAS dataset to a Range on an Excel Spreadsheet in SAS Programming

Export SAS dataset to a Range on an Excel Spreadsheet

alan0101 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:54:26 GMT

Hi, I was hoping someone could help with the following. I have a number of SAS datasets that I want to export onto the same sheet in an Excel spreadsheet. This is the code that I am using :

proc export data=lib.FreqGender outfile="&ProjPath\V005.xlsx"
dbms=xlsx
replace;
sheet=Demographics;
run;

However, conceptually what I am trying to do is this :

proc export data=lib.FreqGender outfile="&ProjPath\V005.xlsx"
dbms=xlsx
replace;
sheet=Demographics;

range=gender;
run;

i.e. I have defined a cell range called gender in the sheet called demographics, where I want to export the contents of the SAS dataset called FreqGender. Any ideas ?

Re: Export SAS dataset to a Range on an Excel Spreadsheet

Steelers_In_DC — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:23:55 GMT

I have seen something online about range names but never when related to export, only import so I'm not able to help there. If you give the actual range it should work though. Range like this 'range =Sheet1!C1:E8'

Re: Export SAS dataset to a Range on an Excel Spreadsheet

Reeza — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:33:19 GMT

Are you talking about a named range?

If so if you use a libname to access the sheet you can write to the sheet, first drop it and then set it. However, I don't believe this works with the XLSX engine. If you're using the XLSX engine you'll need to specify the range as a range of cells, like @Steelers_In_DC has specified.

libname test pcfiles path= 'path to excel file';

proc sql;

drop table test.gender;

quit;

data test.gender;

set lib.freqgender;

run;

libname test;

Re: Export SAS dataset to a Range on an Excel Spreadsheet

PGStats — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 03:57:53 GMT

I would use

libname xl Excel "&ProjPath\V005.xlsx";

proc sql;
drop table xl.gender;
create table xl.gender as
select * from lib.FreqGender;
quit;

libname xl clear;

Your named range will include column names on the first line. This works because dropping a table in Excel deletes the content but not the named range itself.