| Base SAS Software |
The features provided by SAS/Genetics software are in addition to the features provided by Base SAS software. Many data management and reporting capabilities you will need are part of Base SAS software. Refer to SAS Language Reference: Concepts, SAS Language Reference: Dictionary, and the Base SAS Procedures Guide for documentation of Base SAS software.
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 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:
for printing charts and histograms
for displaying the contents of SAS data sets
for computing correlations
for computing frequency crosstabulations
for computing descriptive statistics and summarizing or collapsing data over cross sections
for printing SAS data sets
for sorting SAS data sets
for printing descriptive statistics in tabular format
for transposing SAS data sets
for computing descriptive statistics