SAS

• Using SAS in the SSCC
• Launching SAS from a Command Line
• Launching SAS from the Windows Explorer
• Customizing Your SAS Configuration
• Setting CPUCOUNT

• Introduction to the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4 Language Reference)
• Main Windows in the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4 Language Reference)
• Submitting Commands

• Writing SAS Code
• SAS Files
  • Saving SAS Data
  • Data Set Options
  • Saving SAS Output
  • SAS Procedure Graphs

• SAS Efficiencies
• Where to Store Data
• Compressed Data
• Importing Large Text Files
• Optimizing System Performance (SAS 9.4 Language Reference)

The DATA Step

• The Basic DATA step
• Understanding the DATA step
• Working with Numeric Data
• Working with Character Values
• Converting Numeric/Character Types
• Creating and Using Indictators for Many Categories
• Working with Logical Values
• Conditional Processing: IF-THEN/ELSE
• Statement groups and Iterations: DO/END
• Iterating over variables: Variable Arrays
• Repeated and Duplicate Observations

Beyond the DATA Step

• Variable Labels
• SAS Formats
• User-defined Formats (Value Labels)
• Informats to Encode and Order Character Values
• Types of SAS Errors

Reading Data into SAS

• Concepts
• Observations and Records
• INPUT specification

Subsets

• Variables
• Conditional observations

Merges

• Add variables, Concatenate, Stack data sets
• Nuances and trouble-shooting concatenation
• PROC APPEND and DATASETS
• Concatenate, Merge, and Match-merge
• Table lookup techniques

Arrays

• Variable Arrays

Reshaping Data

• Reshape Long
• Reshape Wide

• SAS Output as Data
• Utility and Statistical procs
• Output statements and options
• ODS
• ODS example: collecting lsmeans

• Frequencies and Crosstabs
• Means
• Weighted Means
• Correlations
• Regression

• SAS Graphics
• Three graphics systems
• Finding graphics commands
• Twoway Plots
  • proc sgplot
  • proc gplot
• Categorical Charts
  • proc sgplot
  • proc gchart

• Let (Macro variables)
• Simple Macros
• Macros with parameters
• Macro flow
• Interleaved output

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 can 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

• Configuration and Basic Use