PROC REPORT - adding a spanning header over some columns

[TimH]

I have a dataset with variables DAYM1-DAYM31 for counts for each day of the month and DAYW1-DAYW7 for counts for each day of the week.   It's easy to put column headers on these, but I would like to put a head _above_ the DAYM1-DAYM31 headers to say 'Day of Month' and above the others to say 'Day of Week' ...  in PROC REPORT, how do I put that sort of heading? Do I need to create some sort of dummy variable?

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

This is a particularly poor arrangement of the data for this purpose. If DAYM1-DAYM31 were not columns in your dataset, but there was a row for each day of the month, then the process is extremely simple. You would use the ACROSS option in the DEFINE statement of PROC REPORT.

define day/across "Day of Month";

Since you don't have this, then try

columns variable1 ("Day of Month" daym1-daym31);

  There are many other advantages to not putting actual information (the day of the month) into your variable names.

[TimH]

Thanks - I found this right after I posted.   I must not have been searching using the right terms. In any case, it works!