Scripting Guide - SAS

312 Scripting Platforms Chapter 10
Launching Platforms Interactively and Obtaining the Equivalent Script
group. All the BY groups appear in the same window when the report is re-run, because Save Script
For All Objects wraps all By-variable analyses in a New Window() command. For example, a
bivariate fit of height by weight grouped by males and females would result in the following script.
New Window("Big Class.jmp: Bivariate",
Bivariate(Y( :height), X( :weight), Fit Line, Where( :sex == "F"));
Bivariate(Y( :height), X( :weight), Fit Line, Where( :sex == "M")));
Save Script to Project
Creates a script to reproduce the report and saves it as a JSL file in a JMP project.
Data Table Window Displays a data table window with the BY group data associated with the analysis
when it has By groups, and brings the data table window forward otherwise.
Make Some Changes
Now, continue working in the Oneway report window.
1. From the red triangle menu for Oneway Analysis of height by age, select Means/Anova.
2. From the same menu, select Compare Means > Each Pair, Student’s t.
3. From the same menu, select Script > Save Script to Script Window.
The resulting script is as follows:
Oneway(
Y( :height ),
X( :age ),
Each Pair( 1 ),
Name( "Means/Anova" )(1),
Mean Diamonds( 1 ),
Comparison Circles( 1 )
);
The script records the choices that you made in the menu. Since these are all Boolean (on or off) options,
they have an argument of 1 to turn them on. In addition to the options selected, three additional display
options have been implied from the other commands given. Choices that you make in menus and their
corresponding JSL commands have exactly the same effects.
You could submit this script to get exactly this report quickly, without all the interactive steps. To run a
script from a script window, select the text and then either select Edit > Run Script, or type CONTROL-R
(Windows) or COMMAND-R (Macintosh). If you select no text, the entire window is run.
Syntax for Platform Scripting
Look at the script in more detail.
Oneway(
Y( :height ),
X( :age ),
Each Pair( 1 ),
Name( "Means/Anova" )(1),
Mean Diamonds( 1 ),