topic Re: Hide legend box in proc FREQ? in SAS Procedures

Hide legend box in proc FREQ?

aj8686 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:40:22 GMT

I am running a basic cross tabulation of two variables (Field, Exam_Date) in a proc freq statement using the following code: proc freq data=regdata2 notitle; table Field*Exam_Date/ norow nocol nopercent; run; The table itself is coming out fine but I still get the legend box on the left of the output screen, which only says the word "frequency" since I told the proc to hide row/column percents, etc.. Is there a way to hide that little legend box and just display the table itself? The legend box is not needed. Thanks!

Re: Hide legend box in proc FREQ?

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:42:23 GMT

Hi:

I'd switch to PROC REPORT or PROC TABULATE if all you want is frequency counts in a crosstabular layout. Either procedure would give you what you want without that little box, which is a feature of PROC FREQ and sort of hard to get rid of, not impossible, but not easy, either.

I not on a machine where I can post code, but if you search for previous forum postings, there have been many good examples of both TABULATE and REPORT.

cynthia

Re: Hide legend box in proc FREQ?

ballardw — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:29:05 GMT

Equivalent proc tabulate code would be:

proc tabulate data=regdata2;

class field exam_data;

table field,exam_data*n=' '*f=f6.0;

run;

if your counts are more than 999999 make the f6.0 larger.

This code will not display counts where either of Field or Exam_data are missing. If you want to see the missing, if any, add "/ missing" to the class statement after the variable names.