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Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond
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Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

by Lauren E. Haworth, Cynthia L. Zender, Michele M. Burlew
October 2009
Beginner
636 pages
13h 35m
English
SAS Institute
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Selecting a Subset of Your Results

If you're using ODS to create output data sets, you have to specify each output object you want. With HTML, RTF, printer, and listing output, by default you get everything the procedure can produce. You can change what you get in limited ways by using certain procedure options. For example, the CHISQ option adds some results to PROC FREQ output, and the NOSIMPLE option removes some results from PROC CORR.

However, the best way to customize the content of your results is to use ODS. For example, if you have the following code that creates RTF output from some univariate statistics, you get the standard UNIVARIATE procedure output shown in Figure 8.1.

ODS RTF FILE='Univariate.rtf'; proc univariate data=voters; ...
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