PROC TABULATE by Example, Second Edition

Formatting Text Values

Another weakness of PROC TABULATE is that it does not give you much control over how your text row and column labels are displayed in the row and column headers. Unlike PROC PRINT and PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE does not have a SPLIT= option. The following example shows what happens when you try to handle long labels in PROC TABULATE. The following code has long labels and values in the row headings, column headings, and the BOX= label:

PROC TABULATE DATA=TEMP F=DOLLAR8.;
   CLASS AGE REGION;
   VAR INCOME;
   TABLE REGION='Plant Location'*AGE, ALL=' '*N='# Employees'*F=8.
      INCOME=' '*(MEAN="Mean' STD='Standard Deviation')
      / BOX='International Pharmaceutical Corp. Salaries';
RUN;

You can see in Output 18.6 that the row and column ...