How to change the order of variables within a dataset is one of the most frequently asked questions in the SAS world.
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February, 2017
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5 for the price of 1! The colon has several uses in SAS, all of them worth knowing about.
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February, 2017
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The media is full of interest rate changes at the moment, leading to lots of questions – will it go down? What does this mean for my savings? How will...
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February, 2017
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The DATA step environment has an internal counter that takes the form of an automatic variable named _N_.
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February, 2017
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When defining a format, you can include an existing format as part of the definition, as shown in the following example.
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February, 2017
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The UPCASE function is often used to compare variables against a value in a consistent case or convert existing data to upper case.
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Informat;
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February, 2017
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Proc SUMMARY with the NWAY option will produce a summary of a dataset based on all the combinations of the CLASS variables found in the data.
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February, 2017
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Principal Consultant Elena Muriel describes the use of SAS Dictionary tables within the Proc SQL procedure and the DATA step environment.
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February, 2017
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A very efficient way of defining Formats and Informats is to use an Input Control Data Set with Proc Format, rather than writing VALUE or INVALUE statements.
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February, 2017
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Suppose we run the following code, PRODGRP being a new variable not present in SASHELP.SHOES:
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