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Course fee and EPTO/APTO units differ for on-site training.SAS Programming for SAS Enterprise Guide Users
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Classroom duration: 2.0 days Live Web duration: 4 half-day sessions Please note the System Requirements below. Course fee: $950 EPTO units: 1.8 CEUs: 1.2 | ||
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This outline is provisional and subject to change.
This course is for experienced SAS Enterprise Guide users who want to gain extra value from the product by understanding the code that it generates and methods of enhancing that code. The course will serve as a transition into the programming world of SAS and serves as a prerequisite for SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques
Learn how to
- analyze the way in which SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS programs work together
- evaluate the structure and syntax of a SAS program
- manipulate SAS data sets using the DATA step
- read delimited text files using the DATA step
- merge tables and isolate matching and non-matching rows using the DATA step
- customize task output by modifying code that is generated by SAS Enterprise Guide.
Who should attend
SAS Enterprise Guide users who are interested in learning about writing SAS programs and modifying the SAS code generated by SAS Enterprise Guide
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course you should have completed the Querying and Reporting Using SAS Enterprise Guide course or have equivalent experience.
Course Contents
Why Learn SAS Programming
- understand SAS Enterprise Guide
- explore the benefits of understanding SAS programming
- describe the course scenarios
- introduction to SAS programming
- SAS programming concepts
- diagnosing and correcting syntax errors
- accessing data via SAS libraries
- comparing the DATA step with the Filter and Query task
- DATA step basics
- DATA step processing
- conditional processing
- importing data
- merging data using the DATA step
- concatenating data
- appending data
- understanding the gneerated code
- interacting with the generated code
- getting help
- the Output Delivery System
- customizing HTML output
- customizing RTF output
- customizing PDF output
- enhancing titles and footnotes
- using run time parameters with code
- conditional highlighting
Software
This course addresses SAS Enterprise Guide, Base SAS.
Course Materials
Classroom: Students attend classroom courses in one of our public training centers. You receive
a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
Live Web: Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins. The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials. Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
Live Web: Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins. The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials. Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
System Requirements
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