[R] problem: try to passing macro value into submit block

[David Winsemius]

On 12/21/21 6:00 PM, Kai Yang via R-help wrote:
> Hi team,I'm trying to pass macro variable into R script in Proc iml. I want to do change variable in color= and export the result with different file name.If I don't use macro, the code work well. But when I try to use macro below, I got error message: "Submit block cannot be directly placed in a macro. Instead, place the submit block into a file first and then use %include to include the file within a macro definition.". After reading the message, I still not sure how to fix the problem in the code. Anyone can help me?
> Thank you,Kai
> %macro pplot(a);proc iml;
> submit / R;
> library(ggplot2)library(tidyverse)
> mpg %>%  filter(hwy <35) %>%   ggplot(aes(x = displ, y = hwy, color = &a)) +   geom_point()ggsave("c:/temp/&a..jpg")
> endsubmit;
> quit;%mend;%pplot(drv);%pplot(cyl);
>
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Two problems I see. 1) you posted to R-help using html whereas the 
mailing list is a plain text venue, and 2) I reasonably sure that's a 
SAS error message and we don't consult on SAS problems.

If you strip out the stuff involving "&a" and add back in the elided 
line-breaks the R code runs without error.

-- 

David.

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