Creating a Basic Report

To produce a simple list report, you first reference the library in which your SAS data set is stored. If you want, you can also set system options to control the appearance of your reports. Then you submit a basic PROC PRINT step.
General form, basic PROC PRINT step:
PROC PRINT DATA=SAS-data-set;
RUN;
where SAS-data-set is the name of the SAS data set to be printed.
In the program below, the PROC PRINT statement invokes the PRINT procedure and specifies the data set Therapy in the SAS data library to which the libref Patients has been assigned. 
libname patients 'c:\records\patients'; 
proc print data=patients.therapy; 
run;
Notice the layout of the resulting report below. By default,
  • all observations ...

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