Clear the results viewer in SAS 9.4?

Question

When I searched, all the results came up for SAS 9.3. That suggested I use the commands:

ods html close; *STOPS WRITING TO THE CURRENT RESULTS VIEWER;

ods html; *OPENS A NEW RESULTS VIEWER;

I'm running SAS 9.4 (Base SAS) and this doesn't work for me, which leads me to the conclusion that the way to clear the results viewer has changed from SAS 9.3 to SAS 9.4.

What to do?

Solution

I believe you need to run the following:

dm 'odsresults; clear';

or just type odsresults;clear in the SAS command box. This works for me in 9.3, can't see why it would be different in 9.4.

For further info - http://support.sas.com/kb/4/159.html

Comments

[Allan Bowe]

What exactly are you running - Base SAS, EG, SAS Studio? Can you post a screenshot to help us identify what you are trying to achieve?

[The Baron]

Base SAS. Can't post a screenshot, but my results viewer is full of output (proc datasets, proc means, proc sgplot, proc glimmix, proc freq). I'd like the output to clear each time I submit, but "ods html close; ods html;" doesn't clear anything from my results viewer.

[tecoup]

Please state what you are trying to accomplish. I can't tell.

[The Baron]

@Aaron Specifically, I'd like the output from my commands to disappear.

[Reeza]

To be clear, the code above resets the HTML file, but the old file with the previous results still exist. Using the code below removes the history of results which is different than resetting the output file.

[radhikesh93]

I am using sas 9.4 and dm 'odsresults; clear'; worked for me. Thanks!