On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:09:36 -0700, Paul Miller <pjmiller_57@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:
....
>I'm interested in adding some label rows and some blank rows to a SAS
dataset before submitting it to Proc Report.
....
hi, Paul,
In terms of coding style, we can make it a bit tighter like below. But I am
not fully convinced that adding a blank row to the data is the best way to
control output.
Cheers,
Chang

/* test data */
data freqs;
  length diagnosis $30 category 8;
  retain diagnosis "";
  do id = 1 to 15;
    count = id * 10;
    select;
    when (id<=6) category=1;
    when (id<=11) category=2;
    otherwise category=3;
    end;
    output;
  end;
run;

/* add some blank/label rows by category */
proc sort data=freqs;
   by category id;
run;

data freqs2;
   if 0 then set freqs; /* prep pdv */
   length d $30;
   drop d;
   do d = "Type", "Stage", "Metastatic";
      link diagnosis;
      /* DoW */
      do until (last.category);
         set freqs;
         by category;
         output;
      end;
      if d ^= "Metastatic" then link blank;
   end;
   stop;
diagnosis:
   diagnosis = catx(" ", "Cancer", d);
   output;
   call missing(diagnosis);
return;
blank:
   /* miss out all the vars except d */
   call missing(category, id, count);
   output;
return;
run;

/* check */
proc print data=freqs2;
run;
/*
Obs    diagnosis            category    id    count

  1    Cancer Type              .        .       .
  2                             1        1      10
  3                             1        2      20
  4                             1        3      30
  5                             1        4      40
  6                             1        5      50
  7                             1        6      60
  8                             .        .       .
  9    Cancer Stage             .        .       .
 10                             2        7      70
 11                             2        8      80
 12                             2        9      90
 13                             2       10     100
 14                             2       11     110
 15                             .        .       .
 16    Cancer Metastatic        .        .       .
 17                             3       12     120
 18                             3       13     130
 19                             3       14     140
 20                             3       15     150
*/