SAS Programming for R Users, Part 2

Discover how to apply your understanding of R—the language of big data—in the SAS environment. To get the most from this course, make sure to watch part 1 of this series.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Random Number Generation and Plotting

• The DO loop
• Random number generation
• Demo: The DO loop and random number generation
• Plotting with the SGPLOT procedure
• Demo: Creating standard R plots
• Enhancing the plot
• Demo: Enhancing the plot
• Multi-cell plotting procedures and statements
• Demo: Multi-cell plotting

2. Descriptive Procedures, Output Delivery System, and Macros

• The CORR and FREQ procedures
• The MEANS and UNIVARIATE procedures
• Demo: Ames home sales data exploration
• Selecting output to print and suppress
• Demo: Selecting output with ODS TRACE or the online documentation
• Saving results to new SAS data sets
• Demo: Creating data tables with ODS
• Creating global macro variables: Manually
• Creating global macro variables: Automating the process
• Demo: Creating and using macro variables
• Macro programming
• Creating macro programs with parameters
• Creating macro programs with macro statements: A business example
• Demo: A macro program to generate data, summary statistics, and plots
• Demo: A macro program for iterative processing