Functional Categories of Base SAS Procedures

Report Writing

These procedures display useful information, such as data listings (detail reports), summary reports, calendars, letters, labels, multipanel reports, and graphical reports.

CALENDAR	PLOT	SQL1
CHART1	PRINT	SUMMARY1
FREQ1	QDEVICE1	TABULATE 1
MEANS1	REPORT1	TIMEPLOT
1These procedures produce reports and compute statistics.

Statistics

These procedures compute elementary statistical measures that include descriptive statistics based on moments, quantiles, confidence intervals, frequency counts, crosstabulations, correlations, and distribution tests. They also rank and standardize data.

CHART	RANK	SUMMARY
CORR	REPORT	TABULATE
FREQ	SQL	UNIVARIATE
MEANS	STANDARD

Utilities

These procedures perform the following basic utility operations:

create, edit, sort, and transpose data sets
create and restore transport data sets
create user-defined formats
provide basic file maintenance such as copy, append, and compare data sets

APPEND	FONTREG	PMENU
AUTHLIB	FORMAT	PRINTTO
BMDP1	FSLIST	PROTO
CATALOG	GROOVY	PRTDEF
CIMPORT	HADOOP	PRTEXP
COMPARE	IMPORT5	PWENCODE
CONTENTS	INFOMAPS 6	REGISTRY
CONVERT1	JAVAINFO	RELEASE1
COPY	METADATA7	SCAPROC
CPORT	METALIB7	SORT
CV2VIEW3	METAOPERATE7	SOURCE1
DATASETS	MIGRATE	SQL
DBCSTAB4	OPTIONS	TAPECOPY 1
DISPLAY	OPTLOAD	TAPELABEL 1
DOCUMENT 2	OPTSAVE	TEMPLATE 2
EXPORT5	PDS1	TRANSPOSE
FCMP	PDSCOPY1	TRANTAB4
		XSL
1See the SAS documentation for your operating environment for a description of this procedure.
2For a description of this procedure, see the SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.
3For a description of this procedure, see the SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference.
4For a description of this procedure, see the SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide.
5For a description of this procedure, see the SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference.
6For a description of this procedure, see the Base SAS Guide to Information Maps.
7For a description of this procedure, see the SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata.