SAS Notes
Basics
Working with SAS: Interfaces to SAS, SAS Files, and the SAS Language.
There are three main themes to this first part: using a SAS interface, working with SAS files, and writing programs in the SAS language.
- Using SAS in the SSCC
- Windows vs. Linux
- Interactive vs. batch
- SAS Files
- Submitting Commands
Additional SAS Documentation
Read through a part of the SAS 9.4 Language Reference Concepts, Introduction to the SAS Windowing Environment. Look especially at the section on Main Windows in the SAS Windowing Environment.
- Writing SAS
- Exercise - Windows and Files
- Configuration
- Autosave and WORK files After SAS crashes
Common Statistical Procedures
Graphics
Plots
Building Data Sets: the DATA step
Reading Data into SAS
Subsets and Merges
Output Data Sets
Arrays
Macros
Writing SAS Documentation
Some notes on how to write up SAS documentation using Markdown and RMarkdown. This is primarily geared toward writing web pages and PDF handouts that include SAS code, SAS output, and explanatory text.
This same system could be used to produce simple Word documents.
- The SASmarkdown Package
- SAS and R Markdown
- Linking SAS Code Blocks
- HTML Tables and Graphs
- Including SAS Logs
- Cleaning Up SAS Log Output
- SAS LaTeX tables
- SAS National Language Support
- Saving intermediate files
- spinSAS - Markdown in SAS comments
Notes in need of revision: