Introduction
After putting in the
time to design a complex table, you do not want to waste your time
retyping all of that code to run the same table on different variables
or to generate different statistics.
One of the most powerful
tools in SAS is the ability to create macros to do repetitive tasks.
If you have a program
that produces a series of tables for the month of January, you can
add a macro that lets you run the tables again for February (and March,
April, and so on).
You can also write a
macro that lets you vary the statistics shown in the table. You can
produce a whole series of tables showing various statistics for the
same group of variables.
Or, if you are ambitious, you can write a generic PROC TABULATE macro that lets you ...
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