Hi:
Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. Alas, I do not think you get to there using PROC REPORT. However, while I can't guarantee that ODS EXCEL will use the Report Writing Interface all the time as you want, I was able to modify one of the programs from my "Elvis" paper using SASHELP.IRIS to show both column spanning and row spanning selectively.
Here's the example in HTML compared to ODS EXCEL:
And, here's the code I used:
proc sort data=sashelp.iris out=iris;
by Species;
run;
ods listing close;
ods html path='c:\temp' file="complex_5_iris.html";
ods pdf file="c:\temp\complex_5_iris.pdf";
ods excel file="c:\temp\complex_5_iris.xlsx" ;
title "Example 3) Row and Column Spanning";
data _null_;
set IRIS end=last;
by species;
length longvar $100;
if first.species then do;
spc_cnt = 0;
sl_tot = 0;
sw_tot = 0;
pl_tot = 0;
pw_tot = 0;
end;
spc_cnt + 1;
sl_tot + SepalLength;
sw_tot + sepalwidth;
pl_tot + PetalLength;
pw_tot + PetalWidth;
if last.species then do;
sl_avg = sl_tot / spc_cnt;
sw_avg = sw_tot / spc_cnt;
pl_avg = pl_tot / spc_cnt;
pw_avg = pw_tot / spc_cnt;
end;
if _N_ = 1 then do;
dcl odsout obj();
obj.table_start();
obj.head_start();
** Header row 1;
obj.row_start(type:"Header");
obj.format_cell(text: "Averages by Species", column_span:5, style_attr:"color=black backgroundcolor=CXd98cb3");
obj.row_end();
** Header row 2;
obj.row_start(type: "Header");
obj.format_cell(text: "Species", style_attr:"color=black backgroundcolor=CXd98cb3 fontweight=bold");
obj.format_cell(text: "SepalLength", style_attr:"color=black backgroundcolor=CXd98cb3 fontweight=bold");
obj.format_cell(text: "SepalWidth", style_attr:"color=black backgroundcolor=CXd98cb3 fontweight=bold");
obj.format_cell(text: "PetalLength", style_attr:"color=black backgroundcolor=CXd98cb3 fontweight=bold");
obj.format_cell(text: "PetalWidth", style_attr:"color=black backgroundcolor=CXd98cb3 fontweight=bold");
obj.row_end();
obj.head_end();
end;
** row for every obs;
if last.species then do;
obj.row_start();
if species eq 'Setosa' then do;
obj.format_cell(data: species, row_span:1 );
obj.format_cell(data: sl_avg, row_span:1);
obj.format_cell(data: sw_avg, row_span:1);
obj.format_cell(data: pl_avg, row_span:2,style_attr:"vjust=m");
obj.format_cell(data: pw_avg, row_span:1);
end;
else if species eq 'Versicolor' then do;
obj.format_cell(data: species, row_span:1 );
obj.format_cell(data: sl_avg, row_span:1, column_span:2);
** do not write pl_avg for Versicolor;
obj.format_cell(data: pw_avg, row_span:1);
end;
else if species eq 'Virginica' then do;
obj.format_cell(data: species, row_span:1 );
obj.format_cell(data: sl_avg, row_span:1);
obj.format_cell(data: sw_avg, row_span:1);
obj.format_cell(data: pl_avg, row_span:1);
obj.format_cell(data: pw_avg, row_span:1);
end;
obj.row_end();
end;
if last then do;
obj.table_end();
end;
run;
ods _all_ close; Hope that helps.
Cynthia
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