About the Book
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This book comprises three parts. Part 1 introduces you to PROC REPORT, showing how it works and "thinks." This section is designed to be read linearly by someone who is unfamiliar with the procedure. Part 2 is a collection of examples that highlight more advanced options and capabilities. It also introduces the relationship between the REPORT procedure and the Output Delivery System, ODS. Part 3 incorporates the options and statements described in the first two parts into a series of examples that highlight many of the extended capabilities of PROC REPORT. This includes a discussion of a few ODS statements and options that might be useful to a REPORT programmer. This section also includes a more in depth look at the REPORT process itself, especially as it relates to the execution of compute blocks.
Art Carpenter, an independent consultant and statistician, has been a SAS user since the mid-1970s. He provides training and instruction on the SAS macro language and other SAS topics to SAS users nationwide. In addition to being the general editor of the Art Carpenter SAS Software Series, his impressive list of publications includes Carpenter's Complete Guide to SAS Macro Language, Second Edition, Annotate: Simply the Basics, his co-authored Quick Results with SAS/GRAPH Software, two chapters in Reporting from the Field, and over four dozen papers and posters presented at the SAS Users Group International (SUGI) conference and various regional and international SAS Users Group conferences.
Art has served as a steering committee chairperson of both the Southern California SAS Users Group (SoCalSUG) and the San Diego SAS Users Group (SANDS) conferences. He has also served as a conference co-chair of the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference, and conference chair and Executive Board member at SUGI.
