Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

Chapter 2: PROC REPORT: An Introduction 47

In the following example, this line of text is a blank line after each level of the grouping variable

(REGION).

* Blank Line using COMPUTE;

title1 'Using Proc REPORT';

title2 'Blank Line After Region';

proc report data=rptdata.clinics

(where=(region in('1' '2' '3' '4')))

nowd;

column region sex wt,(n mean);

define region / group format=$6.;

define sex / group format=$6. 'Gender';

define wt / analysis;

compute after region;

line ' ';

endcomp;

run;

Using Proc REPORT

Blank Line After Region

weight in pounds

region Gender n mean

1 M 4 195

2 F 6 109.66667

M 4 105

3 F 5 127.8

M 5 163.8 ...