Customizing the Kaplan-Meier Survival Plot

SAS Item Stores

In other sections of this chapter, you submit PROC TEMPLATE statements (either directly or through macros) to compile and save graph and style templates. Compiled templates are stored in special SAS files called item stores. Assuming that you have not modified your ODS path with an ODS PATH statement, the templates that you compile are stored in an item store in the Sasuser library. By default, all templates that SAS provides are stored in an item store in the Sashelp library. By default, the Sashelp item store has read access only; you cannot write to it. By default, the Sasuser item store has update access; you can both read and write to it. Caution: Never set the Sashelp item store to update or write access. If you do, and if you have administrator privileges on your computer, you could corrupt the Sashelp item store.

Assuming that the default ODS path is used, ODS first looks for a template in the Sasuser item store. If it does not find the template there, ODS next looks for the template in the Sashelp item store. Files in the Sasuser library persist across SAS sessions until you delete them. You can run the following step to delete the entire Sasuser item store (including all compiled graph and style templates that you added or modified) so that ODS uses only the templates the SAS System supplies:

ods path sashelp.tmplmst(read);
proc datasets library=sasuser nolist;
   delete templat(memtype=itemstor);
run;
ods path reset;

For more information about the ODS path and SAS item stores, see Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS.

Table 23.3: Style Elements

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