SAS DATA Step

The DATA step is your primary tool for reading and processing data in the SAS System. The DATA step provides a powerful general-purpose programming language that enables you to perform all kinds of data processing tasks. The DATA step is documented in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

Base SAS Procedures

Base SAS software includes many useful SAS procedures. Base SAS procedures are documented in the Base SAS Procedures Guide. The following is a list of Base SAS procedures you might find useful:

CHART

for printing charts and histograms

CONTENTS

for displaying the contents of SAS data sets

CORR

for computing correlations

FREQ

for computing frequency crosstabulations

MEANS

for computing descriptive statistics and summarizing or collapsing data over cross sections

PRINT

for printing SAS data sets

SORT

for sorting SAS data sets

TABULATE

for printing descriptive statistics in tabular format

TRANSPOSE

for transposing SAS data sets

UNIVARIATE

for computing descriptive statistics