Hi, First a quick note about FDA and Style Guides.
Frank is correct the FDA does not require strict formatting. I once worked for small startup and they sent EXCEL sheets to the FDA. However big pharma usually has very strict formatting requirements. I once produced a table where one of the border lines was a little to fat (not 1/2 point). Below is a abreviated sanitized TOC for a possible style guide. The official guide is over 50 pages. The controlled document guide is over 100 pages. There is even more detail in the text of this document with sample tables, listings and graphs. I have some code on my site that makes, procedure output, graphs, tables and listings follow one SAS template. . LAYOUT x.S Components of Document x.2 Page Layout x.2.S Portrait Page x.2.2 Turned Page x.2.3 Landscape Page x.3 Page Margins x.T Document Headers and Footers x.K.S Regulatory Submissions x.K.2 Study Reports, IBs, and 2.8 Lists 2.G Numbers 2.S0 Superscripts and Subscripts 2.S1 Symbols 2.Sx.S Spacing Around Symbols 2.Sx.2 Degree Sign 2.Sx.T Percentage Sign 2.Sx.3 Greek Symbols 2.Sx.D Use of Trademark Symbols 2.S2 Units of Measure 2.S2.S Abbreviations 2.S2.2 Standard Abbreviations 7. TABLES. 7.S Placement 7.3 Numbering 7.2 Borders and Internal Lines 7.T Titles 7.D Column Headings 7.D.S Alignment of Column Headings 7.D.2 Capitalization of Column Headings P Data Fromat 7.L Data Format 7.L.S Font and Type Size 7.L.2 Table Cell Size 7.L.3 Aligning Data 7.L.T Decimals 7.8 Footnotes in Tables 7.G Source Code 7.S0 Multipage Tables GRAPHS z.S Placement z.2 Numbering z.3 Titles z.T Figure Legends z.D Source Code Table 2-K. Ewquired Guidelines Regarding Capitalization Table 2-5. Ewquired Guidelines Regarding Use of Numbers Table 3-x. Ewquired Guidelines Regarding Use of Hyphens Table Z-x. Table Borders Table Z-2. Standard Table Numbering and Categories Table Z-3. Table With Center-aligned Columns Table Z-K. Table With Decimal-aligned Data and Pairs of Numbers Table Z-5. Table With Columns of Dissimilar Numeric Data Table Z-6. Table With 1 Type of Value per Column Table Z-7. Table With Unavailable Data Table Z-8. Table With Abbreviated Units of Measure Table Z-G. Table With Footnotes Table Z-10 Subject Disposition Table With Source Code List of Figures Figure Q-1 Page Layouts for US Letter Paper Figure Z-1 Basic Components of a Table Figure Z-2 Bottom Align Buttons on Tables and Borders Toolbar Figure Q-3 Figure With Source Code The margin settings (both Ax and US letter-sized paper). These margins create a common text area of x.xx x x that will prevent text from reflowing when switched from x paper size to another. Page Margins x.x x xx (US letter) paper Ax paper Portrait Landscape Portrait Landscape Top x.0 x.x x.0 x.xx Bottom 0.xx x.0 x.xx x.0 Left x.x 0.xx x.xx x.xx Right x.0 x.0 x.0 x.0 Headera 0.xx 0.xx 0.x 0.xx Footera 0.xx 0.xx 0.x 0.x a This is a Word-specific setting. The measurement is from the edge of the page. single lines only. Follow these specifications as closely as possible (see Table x-x for example): • If the table is created in MS Word, use the ½-point line default. • If another software application is used to generate the table, use a line as close to ½ point as possible. • Use the same line weight throughout the table. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/SAS-and-R-on-multiple-operating-systems-tp1752043p1753151.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
