Merge cells with proc report

[tSAS1]

Hello everyone!

I have this dataset in SAS :

Num	var1	var1_	var2	var2_	var3
A1	A	9	A	8	2
A1	B	1	A	8	2
A1	C	1	A	8	2
A2	A	25	A	22	1
A2	B	16	B	13	1
A2	C	17	C	7	1
A2	C	17	D	3	1
None	A

I want to know if there is any way to display it like this using proc report :

The idea is to merge cells of var1_ if they have the same value in var1 and Num

merge cells of var2_ if they have same value in var2 and Num

and merge cells in var3 if we have same value in Num variable.

I used the code below, but I didn't get the requested result:

proc report data=data  nowindows split='~' spanrows;
		column  Num var1 var1_ var2 var2_ var3;

		define Num   /order ORDER=DATA style(column)=[vjust=m just=l]missing;
		define var1  /display missing;
		define var1_ /display missing;
		define var2  /display missing;
		define var2_ /display missing ;
		define var3/order ORDER=DATA style(column)=[vjust=m just=l]missing;		
	run;

Thank you in advance

[ballardw]

The behavior you are showing comes when you use a GROUP role instead of DISPLAY.

But since the value you show for var2 of A belongs to different groups in Var1 they aren't going to merge because they are actually different groups.

If the columns must be in that order with specific cell merging that are different from cell merging to the left then proc report may not be the tool you need.