For example, after running the following code I see that the variable "very_long_variable_name" gets cut off to "very_long_variable_n" in the Parameter column of the ParameterEstimates ods output datset.
Usually this isn't an issue, except in my current project I have several long variable names I'd like to retain. I've also noticed other SAS procedures such as proc means or proc reg don't truncate variable names in the ods output.
data test;
input y very_long_variable_name;
cards;
10 17
20 41
30 59
;
run;
ods trace on;
proc genmod data=test;
model y = very_long_variable_name;
ods output ParameterEstimates=reg_output;
run;
This probably provides a better explanation than I can. I know other PROCs have things like PARMLABEL and what not.
Use the NAMELEN= option.
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