Date:         Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:23:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Igor Firkusny <igor_firkusny@ABTASSOC.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Igor Firkusny <igor_firkusny@ABTASSOC.COM>
Subject:      Re[2]: descriptive statistics

     Jin Qian,
 
 
     I don't believe you can get them printed alphabetically directly from
     MEANS. One solution might be to use the OUTPUT option on MEANS or
     SUMMARY to create an output data set, and the use PROC PRINT or
     whatever to print the results. This way you could specify the order of
     the output variables. Might be a pain in the neck typing all those var
     names, though...short cuts would include using PROC CONTENTS to create
     an alphabetized list of vars, and pasting that into your VAR stmt; or
     using TRANSPOSE on the result, sorting by var name, and printing that
     data set.
 
     Hope this helped. good luck
 
     Igor Firkusny
     Abt Associates Inc.
     Cambridge, MA
 
     igor_firkusny@abtassoc.com
 
 
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
 
From: Jin Qian
To: schechte; Multiple recipients of list SAS-L
Subject: descriptive statistics
Date: Monday, March 11, 1996 8:12PM
 
 
Dear SAS-Lers:
 
I have a simple question about getting descriptive statistics in SAS.
My data file has over five hundreds variables and I want to get
descriptive statistics in alphabetical order.  However, when I use
PROC MEANS or PROC SUMMARY, what I got was a print out sorted by the
position of all my variables in the data set.  I failed to find out
how to make it sorted alphabetically.
 
Is there an option that I can set in PROC MEANS or PROC SUMMARY?
 
Many thanks in advance.
 
Jin Qian
International Food Policy Research Insititute.