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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

You're reading from   Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis A practical guide to performing effective queries, data visualization, and reporting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839822
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harish Gulati Harish Gulati
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: SAS Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to SAS Programming 3. Data Manipulation and Transformation 4. Section 2: Merging, Optimizing, and Descriptive Statistics
5. Combining, Indexing, Encryption, and Compression Techniques Simplified 6. Power of Statistics, Reporting, Transforming Procedures, and Functions 7. Section 3: Advanced Programming
8. Advanced Programming Techniques - SAS Macros 9. Powerful Functions, Options, and Automatic Variables Simplified 10. Section 4: SQL in SAS
11. Advanced Programming Techniques Using PROC SQL 12. Deep Dive into PROC SQL 13. Section 5: Data Visualization and Reporting
14. Data Visualization 15. Reporting and Output Delivery System 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Leveraging automatic global macro variables

As a programmer, it is ideal if you are aware of as many automatic global macro variables as possible. It is quite a task to remember all of them. However, there are quite a few that come in handy often. Using the automatic global variable the SYSDAY, we will try and produce two types of reports for a sales manager. If it's midweek, we will produce a detailed report. For the end of the week, our aim will be to produce a weekly summary.

We will produce a new Sales dataset with the date, product name, and the sales (in thousands). To try and replicate the output in the following pages, change the day condition as the following code will only produce an output if the day of the macro run is Wednesday or Friday:

Data Sales;
Input SaleDate Date9. Product $ Sales;
Format SaleDate Date9.;
Datalines;
01Aug2019 Med1 56
02Aug2019 Med2 45...
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