SAS recipe for end-to-end workflow?
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From: rjf2 on 19 Oct 2009 15:12 > From: Webb Sprague > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:20 PM > Subject: SAS recipe for end-to-end workflow? > > Hi all > > (First, I am a SAS newbie, though an experienced programmer. I have > googled a little for this, I promise...) > > I would like to automate some data analysis processes in population > estimation, which would take a bunch of csv data files * Making Lists http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Making_Lists > and some shapefiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile > as the beginning, do stuff to them (including some > geographic intersections to get appropriate FIPS codes and the like), http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/graphref/61884/HTML/default/ a002117201.htm http://www.geocities.com/statbookstore/sas/saslang/function.html > make pretty postscript tables, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_tables_win.html hmm, TPL and PROC Tabulate users, take note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPL_Tables > surround the tables with text, and > output the final InDesign / postscript file It would have been nice if you had said Adobe/InDesign http://tryit.adobe.com/us/cs4/indesign/p/?sdid=ETLLA > that is ready to ship to a > customer after a quick QA on a windows desktop. Choose most important: "Best two, out of three." * fast * accurate * cheap > I want all my tweaking to be done in the code, rather than by hand; so > if a border needs to be switched from 1 point to .5 point, I want to > write code to do this, not open the document and do it by hand. > > Does anyone have a skeletal recipe or a link for this? If SAS can't do > it, I don't know what can... I think your problem is: Q: Which ODS destination will output a file that Adobe/InDesign can manage? see ODS PDF and much to my surprise: ODS PS http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/odsprinter/ "Good luck: that amorphous combination of * determinatin * hard work * persistence that gets you recognition, about ten years into your career." Ron Fehd the occasionally known as 'lucky' maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov |