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Annotate: Simply the Basics

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book cover Annotate: Simply the Basics
By: Art Carpenter
ISBN: 978-1-58025-578-3
Pages: 112


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Get started on your way to using ANNOTATE. Annotate has features that make it unique within SAS. Those features combine to make the Annotate facility both complex and powerful. With this well-organized linear introduction to the Annotate facility, get a simple start to a complex subject. Users with a working knowledge of the basics of SAS/GRAPH and the DATA step, will benefit from the guidelines providing strategy for creating Annotate data sets from flat files, other SAS data sets, and assignment statements from within a DATA step. The numerous examples provide key elements of Annotate data sets, alternate statement structures and methods for enhancing your output. You will also be provided with an exhaustive source list for additional reference information to help you move on to the next level of using the Annotate facility.
About the Author

author photo Art Carpenter, an independent consultant and statistician, has been a SAS software user since the mid 70's. He provides training and instruction on the SAS macro language and other SAS topics to SAS users nationwide. His impressive list of publications includes his co-authored book Quick Results with SAS/GRAPH Software, two chapters in Reporting from the Field, and over two dozen papers and posters presented at the SAS Users Group International (SUGI) conference and various regional SAS Users Group conferences.

Art has served as a steering committee chairperson of both the Southern California SAS Users Group (SoCalSUG) and the San Diego SAS Users Group (SANDS) conferences, and he has served as a conference co-chair of the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference. Additionally, he has served as a Section Chair at SUGI.