Just Enough SAS®: A Quick-Start Guide to SAS® for Engineers

Chapter 2. DATA Step Programming

• 2.1 Introduction 20

• 2.2 Creating SAS Data Sets 22

• 2.3 Saving SAS Data Sets 30

• 2.4 SAS Functions and CALL Routines 31

• 2.5 The RETAIN Statement 41

• 2.6 Selecting Subsets of Data Sets 42

• 2.7 Sorting Data Sets 44

• 2.8 Merging Data Sets 47

• 2.9 More Than Enough 50

• 2.10 Chapter Summary 54

Introduction

The data you analyze with SAS is typically stored in SAS data sets. DATA step programming is used to create and manipulate SAS data sets. This section shows how to view SAS data sets, and the remainder of the chapter shows how to create, transform, and save your data sets. The code for this section is in ~\JES\sample_code\ch_2\intro.sas.

This is the first code sample in intro.sas. The syntax is explained in Section 2.2.3. For now, just ...