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haesol42
Calcite | Level 5

Hello, 

 

I am trying to make a report that that highlights some cells in a table. 

I have a matrix (say IND) that contains column and row indices created in iml, and pass it to proc template routine to hightlight the cells that correspond to IND.

 

For example: 

 

proc template;
define table CustomColor;
cellstyle 
_COL_ = "want to place column index from IND" && _ROW_ = "want to place row index from IND" as {backgroundcolor=LightRed};
end;
run;
 
 
proc iml;
tbl = TableCreateFromDataSet("Sashelp", "Class");
IND = {2 3,
             4 2
             5 4};
/% this means that I want to hightlight the matrix elements indexed by (2,3), (4,2) and (5,4). And the matrix IND is not hard-coded in practice. %/
call TablePrint(tbl) numobs=6
template="CustomColor";
quit;

 

How can I write a program that template picks up the values defined in IND, and paint the cells properly?

 

Thank you. 

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Bari_sas
SAS Employee

PROC TEMPLATE's CELLSTYLE AS can be helpful here, but you will need to code your ROW / COLUMN combinations in PROC TEMPLATE, not IML. Here's an example:


ods path work.template(update) sashelp.tmplmst;

proc template;
define table Checkerboard;
cellstyle _row_=2 && _col_=3 as data{backgroundcolor=yellow fontweight=bold },
_row_=4 && _col_=2 as data{backgroundcolor=yellow fontweight=bold },
_row_=5 && _col_=4 as data{backgroundcolor=yellow fontweight=bold },
1 as data;
end;
run;

ods trace on;
proc iml;
tbl = TableCreateFromDataSet("Sashelp", "Class");
IND = {2 3,
4 2,
5 4};
call TablePrint(tbl) numobs=6
template="Checkerboard"
;
quit;

 

Here are my results from SAS 9.4m8:

Bari_sas_0-1700169698941.png

 

 

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