Hi,
I'm experiencing two issues when I create CSV file
1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen
2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system
1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen
Check your preferences, under Results you can set it to do not show results as generated. This is likely why you see the popup.
2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system
not sure what that means.
1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen
Check your preferences, under Results you can set it to do not show results as generated. This is likely why you see the popup.
2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system
not sure what that means.
1- this window pops up and I don't want that to happen
Check your preferences, under Results you can set it to do not show results as generated. This is likely why you see the popup.
I don't know how to do that in the windowing environment.
2-I don't need the table to be created on the SAS system
The tables are created on the SAS system as result and I don't need that since I'm outputting the result to CSV file.
How are running SAS? Are you using SAS Display Manger? Enterprise Guide? SAS/Studio? Something else?
What code (if any) did you run to create the CSV file?
I'm using SAS Windowing Environment.
This is my code;
ods csvall file="R:\LOCATION\Status Metrics_&date..csv";
ods csvall close;
You can change your preferences to not automatically open ODS results.
Or you can not use ODS CSVALL to create the CSV file and instead just write it yourself with a data step. Since then SAS wouldn't consider it "results" it wouldn't pop-up that window. That way you could continue to have SAS automatically open your real results.
You will probably also get better performance and a smaller file.
Here is simple example for making a CSV file without header line.
data _null_;
file "c:\downloads\class.csv" ;
set sashelp.class ;
put (_all_) (+0);
run;
With a little more work you can have the data step also add the header line.
https://github.com/sasutils/macros/blob/master/csv_vnext.sas
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