SAS Tips and Links

• SAS v9.13 Online Docs (including user's guides)    (other versions)
• Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS Software (pdf)
• Free SAS video tutorials
• Proceedings (read or watch)
• SAS Studio: Intro (pdf)   User's Guide (pdf)   programming tips
• Phil Spector's "An Introduction to the SAS System" (pdf)
• Automatic SAS HW grading for Blackboard assignments
• Books: Amazon Of these The Little SAS book: A Primer is good for a quick general start; for more details you will need to buy specific books for each topic.
• CMU SAS Mini-Workshop (11/4/13)
• SAS Institute:   technical support     Syntax Index     Samples and Notes     Tip Sheets     Dictionary of Formats     e-Newsletters     code samples
• Audio Flash lessions (TAMU)
• Nice SAS graphics blog
• Gary Klein's SAS notes/tutorial
• All about data/input statements (pdf)
• SAS rescources
• Sample code to read data with tabs and/or column names in first line

      infile "mydata.dat" firstobs=2 delimiter='09'X;
      /* firstobs=2 skips the first line which contains the column headers */
      /* the delimeter option specifies tab delimited data */
      

• A function to produce means plots or 2- or 3-way interaction plots in R using the results from SAS GLIMMIX/MIXED/GLM called SASIAPlot.R is described at RTips.html.

• SAS code to append to an HTML output file:

     FILENAME myHtml 'myFilename.html' MOD;
     ODS HTML BODY=myHtml (NO_TOP_MATTER NO_BOTTOM_MATTER) ANCHOR='myNewName';
     

  where 'myHtml' is any name less than 8 characters long, 'myFilename.html' is the name of an existing HTML file, and 'myNewName' is any name not used before in this context in this file.
• WHERE vs IF
• PROC SQL (pdf)
• MIT SAS help
• UCLA SAS Learning Modules   ( more )
• UNC SAS help (Broad overview with examples)
• Indiana U. SAS under Unix (pdf)
• Indiana U. SAS under Windows (pdf)
• U Bristol SAS under Unix
• System Options
• SAS Macro Facility
• Documented Problems and Fixes
• Debugging (pdf)
• Intro to ods graphics (pdf)
• Friendly's Page - graphics, macros, categorical analysis
• High resolution graphics and printing in SAS batch mode
• Superscript in SGPLOT titles: yaxis label="Meters ~{unicode '00b3'x}";. See here for other superscripts, fractions, and some other symbols. See here for other unicode pages (choose a page, the choose "Browser Test").
• High resolution boxplots
• Multinomial Logit Models (IU)     Mine:   MNLogit.q     MNLogit.dat     MNLogit.sas     MNLogit.lst     MNLogit.pdf
• Hierarchical models / Proc Mixed:   Singer's paper     Tips and Strategies for SAS PROC MIXED/GLIMMIX/NLMIXED/HPMIXED (pdf)     Primer on biological rhythm analysis with PROC MIXED
• Free pdf textbook on Basic ODS Graphics (SGPLOT/SGPANEL and GTL) Examples

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