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Base SAS

Base SAS® software enjoys its status as the oldest member of the SAS software family. We use these pages to keep you informed of our research and development efforts.

What's New

• What's New in SAS
• What's New in Base SAS® 9.4: Details

Papers from SAS Global Forum

SAS staff delivers many papers at SGF and other user groups. See the various areas of the site for new papers (hint: ODS and ODS destinations, DATA step). Here are a few papers that are of interest across Base subject areas:

• Step-by-Step SQL Procedure (.pdf) (2020)
• It's All about the Base - Procedures, Part 2 (.pdf) (2020)
• A SAS® Macro for Calibration of Survey Weights (.pdf) (2020)
• SAS® Functions to Drive Source Control with GIT (.pdf) (2019)
• World Wide Wrangler: How to Create SAS® Data Sets from HTML Files in Seconds (.pdf) (2019)
• Macro-mize Your Time: Using SAS® to Email Hundreds of Individualized Reports in Minutes (.pdf) (2019)
• Creating and Controlling Json Output with PROC JSON (.pdf) (2019)
• SAS Abbreviations Are Your Friends; Use a Template Method to Code!

Tip Sheets

Most of these PDFs should be printed in landscape mode on both sides of legal-sized (8.5 x 14 inches) paper. Those marked with an asterisk (*) can be printed in portrait mode on letter-sized paper.

• Advanced Programming * New! June 2020
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