SVMACHINE Procedure

OUTPUT Statement

OUTPUT OUT=mylib.data-table <option>;

The OUTPUT statement creates an output data table that contains the predicted values of the input data table.

You must specify the following option:

OUT=libref.data-table

names the output data table for PROC SVMACHINE to use. You must specify this option before any other options. libref.data-table is a two-level name, where

libref: refers to a collection of information that is defined in the LIBNAME statement and includes the library, which includes a path to where the data table is to be stored. For more information about libref, see the section Using SAS Viya Workbench.
data-table: specifies the name of the output data table.

You can also specify the following option:

COPYVAR=variable COPYVARS=(variables)

lists one or more variables from the input data table that are transferred to the output data table.

ROLE<=variable>

specifies a numeric variable that indicates the role that each observation plays in fitting the model. The default name is _ROLE_. Table 2 shows how this variable is interpreted for each observation.

Table 2: Role Interpretation

Value	Observation Role
0	Not used
1	Training
2	Validation
3	Testing

If you do not partition the input data by specifying a PARTITION statement, then the role variable value is 1 for observations that are used in fitting the model and 0 for observations that have at least one missing or invalid value for the target or input variables.

Last updated: September 23, 2026