Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them presents often-used programming tasks that readers can either use as presented or modify to fit their own programs, all in one handy volume. Esteemed author and SAS expert Ron Cody covers such topics as character to numeric conversion, automatic detection of numeric errors, combining summary data with detail data, restructuring a data set, grouping values using several innovative methods, performing an operation on all character or all numeric variables in a SAS data set, and much more! SAS users of all levels interested in improving their programming skills will benefit from this easy-to-follow collection of tasks. This book is part of the SAS Press program.
Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them presents often-used programming tasks that readers can either use as presented or modify to fit their own programs, all in one handy volume. Esteemed author and SAS expert Ron Cody covers such topics as character to numeric conversion, automatic detection of numeric errors, combining summary data with detail data, restructuring a data set, grouping values using several innovative methods, performing an operation on all character or all numeric variables in a SAS data set, and much more! SAS users of all levels interested in improving their programming skills will benefit from this easy-to-follow collection of tasks. This book is part of the SAS Press program.
Ron Cody, EdD, a retired professor from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School now works as a private consultant and a national instructor for SAS Institute Inc. A SAS user since 1977, Ron's extensive knowledge and innovative style have made him a popular presenter at local, regional, and national SAS conferences. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, such as Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide; SAS Statistics by Example, Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Fifth Edition; The SAS Workbook; The SAS Workbook Solutions; Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition; Longitudinal Data and SAS: A Programmer's Guide; SAS Functions by Example, Second Edition, and Cody's Collection of Popular Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them, and Test Scoring and Analysis Using SAS, as well as countless articles in medical and scientific journals.
"Ron Cody has assembled another collection of little known but very
valuable SAS programming tips and tricks in this excellent volume.
The examples and explanations presented are clear, concise, and
entertaining. Even if you consider yourself to be a seasoned SAS
professional you will find insights into new and useful programming
methods using statements that are new and not-so-new to the
software. In addition to data step methods, it is particularly
gratifying to see tips that involve SAS procedures such as PROC
MEANS, RANK, and SQL. Topics covered include data summarization and
restructuring, as well as programs aimed at combining data sets
into more useful forms. This is an excellent book that deserves a
place on every SAS professional's bookcase." -- Gerry Hobbs
"Associate Professor of Statistics, West Virginia University"
"This book knits together programming skills that you may already
have into practical solutions for some of the most common data
management tasks. Each section poses a real-world data management
problem. Then Cody reaches into his SAS bag-of-tricks to pull out
the perfect combination of SAS statements, PROCs, Perl expressions,
and macro language code to solve the problem efficiently. If you
think you are a pretty good SAS programmer, take a look at these
solutions to see whether you are really making the most of the SAS
you know." -- Jeanne Spicer "Population Research Institute/Social
Science Research Institute, Penn State University"
"Wow! Noted SAS author, lecturer, and instructor Ron Cody has
written the definitive do not reinvent the wheel SAS book! The
twelve chapters in Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming
Tasks and How to Tackle Them provide straightforward examples of
how to code dozens of programming tasks that are commonly found in
real-world situations. Cody provides a clear definition of each
task, simple before-and-after snapshots of the data, sleek SAS code
that performs the required action, and down-to-earth explanations
of how and why the code works. Readers can easily adapt the
clear-cut examples for use in their programs. But, more
importantly, they can use the methodologies in the examples to
develop a better understanding of SAS and then build upon those
ideas in their own work. SAS professionals who purchase this clever
book are going to be pleased that they don't have to puzzle over
common programming tasks, but can learn from somebody who has been
there and done that!" -- Michael A. Raithel "Westat"
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