Life Imitates Art: ODS Output Data Sets that Look like Listing Output
Dylan Ellis · 2013
Confusingly, the output data set from a summary procedure looks nothing like the display in our output destination. Have you ever wished for an output data set that looks like the cross-tabulation you see in the listing window? Have you ever run a series of one-way frequencies on a list of variables and wished for a more compact tabular display? This presentation will show how we can leverage string functions and the automatic _TYPE_ variable from PROC TABULATE to reshape the output data set into a more intelligible and practical table visualization. Readers should be familiar with the basics of how to specify a categorical frequency table using Proc Freq or Proc Tabulate.