Specifying Results Formats (1)

Setting Up Your SAS Session

Specifying Results Formats

Next, let's consider the appearance and format of your SAS output. You can specify results formats to create your output as

an HTML document
a listing (traditional SAS output)
both of the above.

You can create HTML output using programming statements on any SAS platform. In addition, in desktop operating environments, you can specify results formats using windows.

Let's look at the two results formats. For example, the following PROC PRINT output is a listing of part of the SAS data set Clinic.Therapy:

SAS listing in the Output window

This is HTML output from the same program:

Obs Date AerClass WalkJogRun Swim

1 JAN1999 56 78 14

2 FEB1999 32 109 19

3 MAR1999 35 106 22

4 APR1999 47 115 24

5 MAY1999 55 121 31

6 JUN1999 61 114 67

7 JUL1999 67 102 72

If you aren't running SAS software in a desktop operating environment, you may want to skip this topic and go on to Setting System Options. For details on creating HTML output using programming statements on any SAS platform, see the lesson Producing HTML Output.