Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

134 Carpenter’s Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

6.5.3 Debugging with the LIST Option

The LIST option can be used to expand the PROC REPORT step in the SAS log. The expansion

includes the statements and options that have been left at defaults. The following simple PROC

REPORT step has three variables on the COLUMN statement, but only two DEFINE statements.

The output is directed only to the LISTING destination, and the programmer might want to know

which options are being applied as defaults.

title1 'Using Proc REPORT';

title2 'Using the LIST Option';

proc report data=rptdata.clinics

list nowd;

column region ht wt;

define region ...