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Sas Ods: Greg Jenkins

ODS (Output Delivery System) allows SAS output to be presented in a more useful format and stored in different file types like HTML, PDF, and RTF. It arranges output in a prettier way and can create output datasets from procedures. Templates can be created using PROC TEMPLATE to customize ODS output styles and tables. Select and exclude statements can choose which tables to include in ODS output.

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Sas Ods: Greg Jenkins

ODS (Output Delivery System) allows SAS output to be presented in a more useful format and stored in different file types like HTML, PDF, and RTF. It arranges output in a prettier way and can create output datasets from procedures. Templates can be created using PROC TEMPLATE to customize ODS output styles and tables. Select and exclude statements can choose which tables to include in ODS output.

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SAS ODS

Greg Jenkins

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Overview
• ODS stands for the Output Delivery System
• ODS allows output from the Data Step &
SAS procedures to presented in a more
“useful” way.
• ODS also allows for some of the output of
SAS procedures to be stored in SAS data
sets.
• Although this is an improvement over the
“regular” SAS output it still has it’s
limitations.
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Uses of ODS
• ODS can arrange output in a “prettier” way.
• It also can create output in a variety of
formats, such as: html, pdf, rtf, etc.
• As stated earlier it can also create output
datasets that generally can also be created
within most of the SAS procedures.

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General Idea of ODS
• Prior to version 7 of SAS output was the
results of a SAS procedure and was stored
in a basic output file (or output window).
• ODS now creates output objects from
procedures that have basically three
components: data component, table
definition (order of columns, rows, etc.),
and an output destination (.html, .rtf, etc.)
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General Use of ODS
• To start output being delivered to ODS the
general syntax is:

ods output-format <options>;

• To end output being delivered to ODS:

ods output-format close;


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Example
• To send the output of a procedure to ODS and
create an .html file:

ods html file = “body.htm”


contents = “contents.htm”
frame = “frame.htm”;

proc print data =new;run;

ods html close;


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Other .html File Options
• Other options that are provided are to
change the style of the html output, just add
a style=style-type to the opening ods
statement.
• To see the SAS styles available use the
following code: proc template; list styles;
run;
• Style sheets can also be used by adding a
stylesheet=filename(url=url-name) line to
the opening ods statement.
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RTF Files
• This creates “prettier” output that can be
read by MS Word and other word
processing programs.
• The general syntax is:

ods rtf file=“rtf-filename.rtf”;


… sas-code …
ods rtf close;

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PDF Files
• This creates “prettier” output that can be
read by Adobe Acrobat Reader, one caveat
of using this is that you need the Adobe
Acrobat Distiller.
• The general syntax is:

ods pdf file=“pdf-filename.pdf”;


… sas-code …
ods pdf close;
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Enough with the Regular Output
What About Graphics?
• Works the same way as any other procedure
although, the sizing of your graph probably won’t
be what you want, ODS fits output to 8½ x 11(use
goptions to change this).
• For html output you need to specify a path for
your graphics, generally the same path as where
you put your other html files, add the following
line to your opening ods line:

gpath = “path-name” (i.e. gpath=“C:/sasclass/”)


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Enough with the Regular Output
What About Graphics?

RTF Example

ods rtf file=“U:/rtffile.rtf”;


proc gplot data = data1;
plot y*x;
run;
ods rtf close;
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Enough with the Regular Output
What About Graphics?

HTML Example

ods html file=“U:/web/body.htm”


gpath=“U:/web/”;
proc gplot data = data1;
plot y*x;
run;
ods html close;
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Some Other Options for HTML
Graphics
• Another thing you can do with HTML
output is create “drill down” graphs.
• This is done using the actually gplot or
gchart procedure.
• A variable must be created in the SAS
dataset that the gplot/gchart procedure is
using, indicating the link requested.

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Drill-Down Chart Example
Data temp; length mylink $40.;
if z = 1 then mylink = ‘href=“mylink1.htm”’;
else if z = 2 then mylink = ‘href ….

ods html file=“U:/body.htm” gpath=“U:/”;


proc gchart;
hbar z/html=mylink;
run;
ods html close;
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What if I Don’t Want All the ODS
Tables Created by a Procedure
• Use the select or exclude statements in the
different ods opening statements.
• In order to exclude and select tables you need to
know their names.
• The help generally gives you names of the tables
but you can also use the ods trace command:

ods trace output;

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Example of Selecting a Table

ods listing select “Moments”;

proc univariate;
var age;
run;

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How About those Output
Datasets?
• Just as in the case of using select and
exclude statements you’ll need to know the
tables that you want to create datasets from,
but the general syntax is:

ods output table-name=dataset-name;

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Example of Output Dataset
ods output Moments=mom;

proc univariate;
var age;
run;

ods output close;


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The Output is “Nice” But How
Can I Change It?

• To create your own ODS schemes, you


need to create what is called a template
(don’t confuse this with the SAS/GRAPH
templates).
• To create and modify templates you need to
use the procedure proc template.

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Proc Template
• Two parts to ODS output: an overall style,
and individual table definitions.
• The overall style consists of general formats
like: colors for backgrounds, default fonts,
etc.
• Individual table definitions are things like:
the order of columns in a table, SAS format
to use for column headings, etc.

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Proc Template
• Templates are stored like other SAS files,
but can have multiple level names.
• The main “unit” of a template “group” is a
template store.
• Within the template store may be many
templates, where styles, table elements, etc.
are stored. It’s basically like a directory for
templates.

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Proc Template
• The basic syntax used to create a template is
the following:

proc template;
define definition-type definition-path
</store=libname-template-store>;

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Example of Style Definition
libname in ‘U:/mytemplates’;
Proc template;
define style mystyle.testout
store=in.mystore;
style celldatasimple / font_face=arial
background=very light vivid blue
foreground=white;
run;
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Proc Template
• There are a lot of options using this procedure, it
appears that you can have a lot of control over
how things are formatted.
• However, it’s not that simple to figure out, SAS
online doc has a lot of information on this or look
at Heffner 1998 The Complete Guide to the SAS
Output Delivery System.
• Also code of default styles and table definitions
can be looked at using proc template and the
source command:

proc template; source template-name;


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