topic Re: Proc report ACROSS in SAS Procedures

Proc report ACROSS

VISHNU239 — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:26:52 GMT

what is the purpose of ACROSS variable of define in PROC REPORT? can any one explain with an example. thanks in advance.

Re: Proc report ACROSS

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 02:59:10 GMT

Hi:

Consider this example. SASHELP.CLASS is a file of 19 observations. You should be able to run this code and observe the difference between the ACROSS usage for the SEX variable and using GROUP as the usage. Basically, ACROSS usage makes a column going across the report row for each unique value of the variable that has the ACROSS usage specified.

cynthia

proc report data=sashelp.class;
  column age sex height;
  define age / group;
  define sex / group;
  define height / mean "Avg Height";
run;
 
proc report data=sashelp.class;
  column age sex,height;
  define age / group;
  define sex / across;
  define height / mean "Avg Height";
run;

Basi

Re: Proc report ACROSS

Reeza — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 04:03:19 GMT

The documentation has a good example here:

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=proc&docsetTarget=n1pl56sdqo09cyn1fifuhcz8dl2f.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en#n1pl56sdqo09cyn1fifuhcz8dl2f