Lessons learned: valuable (but hidden) SAS®details

Autor:	Dante diTommaso, Benjamin Szilagyi
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Development environment Documentation General interest Computer science Counterintuitive Macro Data science Task (project management)
Zdroj:	Pharmaceutical Programming. 1:42-50
ISSN:	1757-093X 1757-0921
DOI:	10.1179/175709208x334650
Popis:	Sometimes the simplest SAS® task can become unnecessarily complex. Often the complexity of SAS®, itself, is the cause. Crucial details are easily hidden among the thousands of pages of SAS® documentation, technical notes, release updates, etc. The authors demonstrate a collection of SAS® features and techniques that are not well known, somewhat counterintuitive or undocumented, but all are surprisingly useful once learned and mastered. Mysterious SAS® behavior that might have inspired ‘work-arounds’ should now become transparent. Topics include environment settings; system options; and operators, functions and statements from SAS Language®, Macro Language®, SCL® and SAS/Graph®. The authors intend, through this selective review of uncommon techniques, to inspire a general interest in leveraging the power and maximizing the efficiency of programming tools.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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