30May
Using SAS FILENAME statement to extract directory file listings into SAS
The filename statement’s pipe option allows you to direct the output of operating system commands into SAS for further processing. Usefully, the Windows dir command (with its /s switch) and the UNIX equivalent ls allow you get a file listing into SAS. For example, here’s how you extract the list of files in your UNIX [...]
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16May
Finding the number of observations in SAS dataset
There are a number of ways of finding out the number of observations in a SAS data set and, while they are documented in a number of different places, I have decided to collect them together in one place. At the very least, it means that I can find them again. First up is the [...]
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