topic Re: Proc Report rtf in SAS Procedures

Proc Report rtf

nirali514 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:55:28 GMT

Is it possible to add a paragraph before and after a table that is being created by proc report? The text would be a 3/4 sentence paragraph, so longer than a title or footnote. Is there then a way to format this paragraph (ie, font and size)?

Is there a sample code for this?

Re: Proc Report rtf

Reeza — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:33:46 GMT

I'm assuming you don't have a question here.

Re: Proc Report rtf

nirali514 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:54:43 GMT

I am not sure why my orginal question had a line through it. sorry please see below.

Is there a sample code for this?

Re: Proc Report rtf

nirali514 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:54:50 GMT

I am asking if it is possible to add text in a proc report that is independent of a table.

Re: Proc Report rtf

Reeza — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:57:39 GMT

You have lines through it because you accidentally selected 'strike through' for some reason. It's the fourth icon in the Rich Text editor.

There's probably also a keyboard shortcut similar to CTRL+B for bold or i for italic.

Also, you can edit your posts. See the gear icon in the top right hand corner, rather than reposting your question. I've fixed it for you now.

You can use ODS TEXT= and/or PROC ODSTEXT to display text in your reports. ODS TEXT allows for styling, not sure about ODSTEXT it's relatively new.

If you search those topics you'll find examples.

Re: Proc Report rtf

ballardw — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:02:54 GMT

@nirali514 wrote:
I am asking if it is possible to add text in a proc report that is independent of a table.

I think that you may want to investigate Proc ODSText. You can either specify explicit text, use a data set with text, or combine elements of both.

proc odstext;
   p 'You can use the ODSTEXT procedure to add paragraphs
      and lists to your output.';
   p 'You can also format your text.' / style=[color=red fontsize=25pt];
   p 'This slide shows output created by PROC GMAP.' 
                                     / style=[color=purple fontsize=30pt];
run;

shows an example of 3 paragraphs (the p) with different formats. The online example I borrowed this from is prior to a GMAP output hence the text.

You would use a separate proc odstext call before and after the proc report call.

There is another procedure ODSLIST if your output looks more like a bullet list that may be of use as well.

Re: Proc Report rtf

nirali514 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:47:50 GMT

Thank you!