Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

374 Carpenter’s Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

In this example, if BMI were to the left of either HEIGHT or WEIGHT on the COLUMN

statement, the calculation of BMI would fail. The following COLUMN statement would not

work:

column age sex n weight bmi height;

The value of HEIGHT (converted or otherwise) would not yet be available for use in the BMI

compute block. In fact, it would be missing altogether, and the user would receive an

“uninitialized variable” error.

11.3.3 Summary Lines and Compute Blocks in the Same

Report

When summary lines are requested in the PROC REPORT step, the summarization itself takes

place in the setup ...