Big Data Analytics with SAS

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We will write some SAS code that will print Hello World."

A block of code is set as follows:

/* This is one way to add comments to your code */
data _null_;
   text="Hello World";
   put text;
run;
* here is another way to add a comment or to comment out code;

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like ...