Power User's Guide to SAS Programming - Philip R Holland (December 2008, retired August 2015, PDF & ePub eBooks available February 2018)

This book brings together a wealth of ideas about strategic and tactical solutions to everyday situations experienced when transferring, extracting, processing and reporting data. Most of the solutions can be achieved using the SAS components you already license, so you won't need to throw money at the problems.

You'll learn about the following:

    • What is Efficient SAS Coding? (balancing processing and maintenance efficiency when programming in SAS)

    • A Simple and Adaptable Automated Warehouse Design (implementing a simple data warehouse using just Base SAS)

    • Everyday Uses for ODS (creating spreadsheets, generating report files in parallel, and replaying reports)

    • SAS to R to SAS (using R to create content for SAS ODS reports)

    • Knit Perl and SAS Software for DIY Web Applications (access SAS ODS through the web using Perl)

    • Distributing Organization Charts without SAS/IntrNet Software (building static HTML with Base SAS)

    • Running Clinical Trials Programs with Enterprise Guide (hints and tips for controlling structured folders of SAS programs)

    • Could Enterprise Guide have been written in Java? (a comparison of Enterprise Guide functionality with the Java interface to SAS Integration Technologies)

Note that this book has been retired (August 2015), and replaced by SAS Programming and Data Visualization Techniques: A Power User's Guide. However, eBooks (PDF and ePub) has been made available again from Lulu.com from February 2018.

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