Use of colon

Link: www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/054-29.pdf

Combining Queries with Set Operators

Link: UNION, EXCEPT, INTERSECT, OUTER UNION, etc.

ANY* and NOT* Function

The ANY* and NOT* functions find specific characters within a character string. The set of characters that the functions find is based on the translation table used by SAS, and whether the session is run in an ASCII or EBCDIC environment. To determine which characters are found in your session of SAS, use the following program. Values of 1 mean that the character is found by the function, values of 0 mean the character is not found.

data test;
      do dec=0 to 255;
           byte=byte(dec);
           hex=put(dec,hex2.);
           anycntrl=anycntrl(byte);
           anygraph=anygraph(byte);
           anypunct=anypunct(byte);
           notalpha=notalpha(byte);
           notprint=notprint(byte);
         output;
      end;
run;

proc print data=test;
run;

PROC SURVEYSELECT

Simple random sample without replacement
Select a random sample where no observation can be chosen more than once.

/* WORK.EASTHIGH is a data base of student grade point averages */
/* from East High School, Grades 9 through 12, 100 or more students per grade. */

data EastHigh;
      format GPA 3.1;
      do Grade=9 to 12;
            do StudentID=1 to 100+int(201*ranuni(432098));
                  GPA=2.0 + (2.1*ranuni(34280));
                  output;
            end;
      end;
run;

/* Using PROC SURVEYSELECT */
/* Use METHOD=SRS. N= is the number of observations to select. */
/* The sample is stored in the OUT= data set, SAMPLE1. */

proc surveyselect data=EastHigh method=srs n=15 out=sample1;
run;

title "PROC SURVEYSELECT";
proc print data=sample1;
run;


Simple random sample with replacement
Select a random sample where an observation can be chosen more than once.

/* Using PROC SURVEYSELECT */
/* Use METHOD=URS. N= is the number of observations to select. */
/* The sample is stored in the OUT= data set, SAMPLE. */
/* The OUTHITS option includes an observation in the OUT= data set */
/* for each selected unit. By default, the OUT= will contain one */
/* observation for each unique selected unit and the NumberHits */
/* variable identifies the number of times each unit is selected. */

proc surveyselect data=EastHigh method=urs n=15 out=sample outhits;
run;

title "PROC SURVEYSELECT ";
proc print;
run;

Jackknife and Bootstrap Analyses

Link: http://support.sas.com/kb/24/982.html

Look up system options and display setting

proc print data=sashelp.voption;

run;

proc options group=memory;

run;

proc options option=memblksz define value lognumberformat;

run;

Link: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/a000083867.htm

Superscript, Subscript in RFT

data test;
length secnam $15;input sortord secnam $ pvalue; 
cards;
   1 demog 0.8812
   2 ae 0.7112
   3 disposition 0.8112
   4 medicalhistory 0.9112
; 
run;
 
ods listing close;
ods rtf file="Test.rtf" style=rtfout;
ods escapechar='\'; *** value not limited to \;

proc report data = test missing split="$" spacing=0 headline nowd;
     column sortord secnam pvalue;
     define sortord / order noprint;
     define secnam / order flow "Demographics$Variable\{super a}";
     define pvalue / display flow "ANOVA$P-Value\{sub p}";
footnote1 "testing\{super 1}";
footnote2 "new test\{sub 2}";
run;

ods rtf close;
ods trace off;
ods listing;

Link: http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/templateFAQ/Template_rtf.html#escapechar

Changing titles in ODS Content Page

For those who use the HTML content frame, it can be quite annoying to see a bunch of PROC PRINT or PROC GPLOT in the content page. To change the titles, you can use the following statement.

ODS PROCLABEL ""; 

The PROCLABEL statement also has utility in the PDF destination as it can be used to alter the text in the contents panel.

SAS Qualification Tools

Using two tools to verify SAS installed correctly and operational. The two tools are the SAS Installation Qualification Tool (SAS IQ) and the SAS Operational Qualification Tool (SAS OQ).

• The SAS IQ assists in demonstrating the SAS System has been installed and maintained to the manufacturer's specifications. SAS IQ verifies the integrity of each file in the SAS System 9 and provides the customer a set of reports detailing the results.
• The SAS OQ assists in demonstrating the SAS System is operational. SAS OQ uses SAS programs provided by the component development groups and will execute, process, and report the program results. 

SAS 9.1.3  SAS 9.2

Copy a permanent format library

proc catalog catalog=libA.formats;
        copy out=libB.formats;
run;

Creating a Stored Macro Facility

options mstored sasmstore=macro;
libname macro '/home/dltmp/maclib';

%macro test / store des='This is my program';
         %let x=1;
%mend;

%copy test/source;

proc catalog cat=macro.sasmacr;
        contents;
run;

Link: http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2008/101-2008.pdf

Handle special character when import data

sasv9 -set NLS_LANG AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252 crdata.sas


Link: http://support.sas.com/kb/18/688.html

Customize Axes in PROC GPLOT

Link: www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi25/25/cc/25p110.pdf