The SAS Programmer's PROC REPORT Handbook: Basic to Advanced Reporting Techniques

Preface

With PROC REPORT you can sort and transpose data. You can calculate statistics and create new variables. You can concatenate character variables and multiply numeric variables. No other procedure comes close to this kind of versatility. Because PROC REPORT acts like no other procedure in Base SAS, it might be the hardest to learn and understand. It can be both frustrating and confusing.

In this book I try to show you the power of PROC REPORT and help you imagine all of the things you can do with it. I also try to show you the pitfalls that make you want to throw up your hands in defeat. Programmers are no longer tasked with just calculating a number; you must create output in a certain form and it must be aesthetically pleasing. The output ...