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Subject: 	[sug-l] RTSUG meeting - March 12 at RTI
Date: 	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:15:11 -0500
From: 	Sandy Donaghy <donaghy at stat.ncsu.edu>
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The next RTSUG meeting will be March 12th from 2:45 - 5:00 pm in the
Multipurpose Room of the Gertrude Cox Building at RTI International.

The schedule is:
2:45 - 2:50 Welcome
2:50 - 3:40 A Tiptoe Through the Tagset Field presented by Mike Molter

3:45 - 3:55  Creating Journal-Style Tables in an Easy Way (with Proc
Tabulate, Proc Template, Proc Format, and ODS RTF) presented by Janet
Grubber

3:55 - 4:10  Break
4:10 - 5:00  Adventures in ODS:  Producing Customized Reports Using the
Output from Multiple SAS Procedures presented by Stuart Long

These papers will be presented at SAS Global Forum the following week.

Please mark your calendars and RSVP to rsvp at rtsug.org.  Note - If you
are a foreign national please provide your name, country of origin,
country of citizenship, title, company, and address when you RSVP.   We
are sorry for the inconvenience but we have to follow RTI policy.

*Paper Information and Abstracts

*

Paper Number  	039-2008
Title  	*A Tiptoe Through the Tagset Field*
Speaker(s)  	Michael Molter, PPD, Inc.
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20030928212113565468000000&name=Michael%20Molter,%20PPD,%20Inc.> 

Section  	Beyond the Basics
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/track/view.html?id=20070625195221645817000000> 

Skill Level  	Tutorials: Intermediate/Advanced
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/content_level/view.html?id=20040402133702061855000000> 

Abstract  	The flexibility that the MARKUP destination has added to the
Output Delivery System (ODS) is comparable to the benefits ODS
originally brought to SAS® output, but it comes at a price known as the
tagset. With ODS, we could display results in Web pages without HTML
knowledge and in Word without RTF knowledge. Developers soon realized
though that having ODS do all the work wasn’t always ideal; on occasion
users could benefit from having some control over how markup was
generated. Just as templates instruct ODS to customize displays, tagsets
instruct ODS to customize markup. The advantage clear–more flexibility
in the generation of output. The price is similar to that paid for
display flexibility–you need more TEMPLATE procedure syntax, and an
understanding of how ODS constructs files from these instructions.

Great accomplishments often come from modest beginnings. This paper is
your modest beginning. From the edge of the field we’ll get “the lay of
the land” with discussions on background, purpose, and use with the
MARKUP destination. With one foot in the field we’ll look at examples of
markup that require slight tweaking and available documentation to guide
us. Further into the field, we’ll produce simple informational tagsets,
and inch out further with tagsets that inherit and manipulate those that
SAS provides. By the end of the paper, the reader will see in the
distance many undiscovered areas, but hopefully the curiosity generated
by the path taken thus far will lead to further exploration and greater
accomplishments.

Paper Number  	091-2008
Title  	*Creating Journal-Style Tables in an Easy Way (with PROC
TABULATE, PROC TEMPLATE, PROC FORMAT, and ODS RTF)*
Speaker(s)  	Janet M. Grubber, HSR&D, Durham VA
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20070914221651743822000000&name=Janet%20M.%20Grubber,%20HSR&D,%20Durham%20VA>; 
Maren
Olsen, Duke University Medical Center
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20080205205400962676000000&name=Maren%20Olsen,%20Duke%20University%20Medical%20Center>; 
Hayden
Bosworth, Duke University Medical Center
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20080205205510556925000000&name=Hayden%20%20Bosworth,%20Duke%20University%20Medical%20Center> 

Section  	Coders' Corner
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/track/view.html?id=20030617180827176080000000> 

Skill Level  	Intermediate general SAS user
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/content_level/view.html?id=20030714222416500536000000> 

Abstract  	When you are creating “Table 1 – Demographics”-type tables
for journal articles or presentations, do you get sick of cutting and
pasting from SAS® output into Word documents? Are you tired of manually
typing PROC FREQ or PROC UNIVARIATE SAS output into tables in Word
documents, and then having to double-check to make sure you didn’t make
any typos? Does it drive you crazy to have to go back and manually redo
a table because you discover later in the game that you should present
not just data for your overall data set, but data stratified by an
additional variable such as race? Fear not; there is a way to cut down
on your effort and the need to check for typos with a little bit of
up-front effort in SAS.

In addition to automating the table creation process, the following
special features can be used in SAS to make tables publication-ready:

• Indenting response levels (e.g., Male, Female) under broader category
row headings (i.e., Gender) using the class level “asis=on” option along
with a PROC FORMAT “trick”
• Creating an “overall” variable that can be used to generate statistics
for overall data sets in PROC TABULATE
• Formatting percentages using “picture pctfmt”
• Representing missing text with 0s using the misstext='0' statement
• Customizing font

This paper describes methods for automating the production of
journal-style demographic-type tables by using PROC TEMPLATE, PROC
FORMAT, PROC TABULATE, label statements, and ODS in SAS.

Paper Number  	030-2008
Title  	*Adventures in ODS: Producing Customized Reports Using Output
from Multiple SAS® Procedures*
Speaker(s)  	Stuart Long, Westat
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20040907212048650590000000&name=Stuart%20Long,%20Westat>; 
Jeffrey
Abolafia, Rho, Inc.
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20030929143851857995000000&name=Jeffrey%20Abolafia,%20Rho,%20Inc.>; 
Lawrence
Park, Murdoch University
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/speaker/view.html?speaker=20050824190626829087000000&name=Lawrence%20Park,%20Murdoch%20University> 

Section  	Beyond the Basics
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/track/view.html?id=20070625195221645817000000> 

Skill Level  	Advanced general SAS user
<http://sgf2008.confnav.com/sgf2008/web/sessions/content_level/view.html?id=20030714222457954845000000> 

Abstract  	The SAS® Output Delivery System, combined with the macro
facility, provides the seasoned programmer with the tools to customize
the content of output in order to generate summarized reports of
procedural or multi-procedural listings. One of the shortcomings of
statistical analysis in SAS is the amount of output that is generated
from SAS procedures and dumped to the SAS listing. This often voluminous
amount of output combined with statistics that are extraneous to the
needs of reviewers can be problematic.

The SAS® Output Delivery System allows programmers to extract only the
desired statistics from a procedure, storing them in a single summary
data set. Numerous ODS output data sets can be merged together and used
to generate concise reports summarizing the results from multiple SAS
procedures. The automation of the creation of these summary data sets
allows for iteration to propagate the analysis over hundreds or
thousands of data points.

This paper defines analysis methods and details the translation of these
methods into modular macros. Each macro module executes one main task
and produces a product before processing is passed on to the next macro.
A supervisory macro will be designed to allow these modules to customize
the summarization of an analysis. With proper design, as demonstrated in
this paper, these modules can be interchangeable within the supervisory
macro, in order to allow the substitution of procedures to alter the
analysis as needed. This is an advanced presentation intended for SAS
programmers knowledgeable with Base SAS® and the macro facility.

*Directions to the Gertrude Cox Building*

     * **From the east via I-40**, take Exit 280, Davis Drive. At the top
       of the exit ramp, turn right onto Davis Drive. At the first
       traffic light, turn left onto Cornwallis Rd. Turn left at the
       first traffic light onto Institute Drive (This is RTI). Take your
       3^rd left turn following the signs to the Gertrude M. Cox
       Statistics Building.  This is a 3-story, yellow brick building
       with a glass front.
     * **From the south (really west) via I-85**, take Exit 172 to go
       south on NC 147 (the Durham Freeway). Take Exit 6, Cornwallis
       Road. At the top of the exit ramp, turn left onto Cornwallis Rd.
       At the first traffic light at Institute Drive, turn right (This is
       RTI). Take your 3^rd left turn following the signs to the Gertrude
       M. Cox Statistics Building.  This is a 3-story, yellow brick
       building with a glass front.
     * **From the west via I-40**, take Exit 280 onto Davis Drive. At the
       top of the exit ramp, turn right onto Davis Drive. At the second
       traffic light, turn left onto Cornwallis Road. At the first
       traffic light, turn left into Institute Drive (This is RTI). Take
       your 3^rd left turn following the signs to the Gertrude M. Cox
       Statistics Building.  This is a 3-story, yellow brick building
       with a glass front.
     * **From the north via I-85**, take Exit 177B for NC 55 East,
       Roxboro Road, and NC Central University. Go east (really south) on
       NC 55. When it intersects NC 147 (the Durham Freeway), go south on
       NC 147. Take Exit 6, Cornwallis Road. At the top of the exit ramp,
       turn left onto Cornwallis Rd. At the first traffic light, turn
       right into West Institute Drive (This is RTI). Take your 3^rd left
       turn following the signs to the Gertrude M. Cox Statistics
       Building.  This is a 3-story, yellow brick building with a glass
       front.
     * **From the south via NC 55**, get on I-40 going east. Take Exit
       280, Davis Drive. At the top of the exit ramp, turn right onto
       Davis Drive. At the second traffic light, turn left onto
       Cornwallis Road. At the first traffic light, turn left into
       Institute Drive (This is RTI). Take your 3^rd left turn following
       the signs to the Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Building.  This is a
       3-story, yellow brick building with a glass front.

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