Break Your Problem Down Step-By-Step
Most problems can be
solved by reading Decoding Error Messages and Incorrect Tables and How to Fix Them. PROC TABULATE code can be confusing to debug because TABLE
statements are so complex. If you have a more stubborn problem, then
it is helpful to break down your problem step-by-step. The following
steps show you how to break a table down into its components, so that
you can see what is going wrong.
Simplify the table.
If your table is not
simple in design, the first step in debugging is to simplify you table.
Sometimes the problem with a table is obvious if you look at the bare
bones of the code. For example, the table created by the following
code has a problem:
PROC TABULATE DATA=TEMP; CLASS OWNHOME ...
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