Scripting Guide - SAS

310 Scripting Platforms Chapter 10
Scripting Analysis Platforms
Scripting Analysis Platforms
Scripting platforms is done with the same keywords that you see in the windows and menus, including the
choices that you see in red triangle menus and context menus inside a report.
You can use JMP interactively and then obtain the script corresponding to the analysis that you created. You
can take advantage of this behavior in several ways:
1. Learn JSL by example. Launch platforms and work with them interactively, and then save and examine
the script that matches your work. Make changes through the interface and then study the changes in
the script.
2. Save a number of scripts from analyses to a script window, and then save it to a file. You can use that
script to recreate the analysis later, or to reproduce the analysis using new data.
3. Save platform scripts, and then edit them to use JSL programming features to make the analyses more
general and to customize reports.
Select Help > Scripting Index, and then select Objects from the menu to see all the scripting commands
available for each platform. This index includes all scriptable platform options, with a description, the
syntax, and an example.
Notation in this chapter
This chapter Capitalizes The Names of command words that you need to use exactly as they are shown
and shows arguments that are placeholders for actual choices in lowercase. For example, Connect Color
is a command that you need to type as is, and color stands for some color choice that you make yourself.
Connect Color(color)
In this case, the argument in parentheses must be some color value. For example, a JMP color number, or a
supported color name like "red", "blue", and so on, or an RGB value given as a list, such as {.75, .50,
.50}. Sometimes alternatives like these are shown with the vertical bar (|) character for “or,” like this:
Connect Color( number | "color name" | {r,g,b} );
You do not have to use upper- and lower-case letters, and you do not have to type the | character either.
You can use the following terms interchangeably depending on context: command, option, or message. The
term argument refers to anything that goes in parentheses after an item, and arguments can also contain
options with further arguments.
Launching Platforms Interactively and Obtaining the Equivalent
Script
Here is an example to see how the JMP interface and scripting language are related.