Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating HTML Output with SAS/GRAPH

Creating HTML output from SAS/GRAPH is easy. All you have to do is write your usual SAS/GRAPH code and wrap ODS invocation statements around it. You might or might not need a GOPTIONS statement, because SAS 9.2 uses default devices for each destination.

You need an ODS HTML statement with at least a FILE= or BODY= option to name the file you are creating. You also need a PATH= option to point to the location where the body file and graphic images should be stored. When you use the PATH= option, the URL=NONE suboption prevents insertion of the physical storage path information in the <IMG> tag. The following example places the body file and the graphics file in the C:\temp directory.

Two items to keep in mind ...