From the course: SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 06 Exporting Results
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Using the SAS output delivery system - SAS Tutorial
From the course: SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 06 Exporting Results
Using the SAS output delivery system
- [Instructor] As programmers, our goal is to build programs that can run frequently and completely unattended. The SAS output delivery system, or ODS is programmable and flexible, making it simple to automate the entire process of exporting reports to other formats. In SAS, procedures that generate reports really generate output objects that can be rendered in one or more output formats for viewing in SAS or other software packages. In ODS terminology, each of these formats is called a destination. Some ODS destinations produce very simple output files like text files conforming to comma-separated value standards. Others produce complex output files designed to be viewed and manipulated using other external software packages. Common destinations of this type include: XLSX for Excel, RTF for Microsoft Word, PPTX for PowerPoint, and PDF. Directing output to these destinations is like making a sandwich. The SAS…
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