Business Statistics Made Easy in SAS

Basic Introduction to SAS Programming

Running SAS Tasks through Point-and-Click Windows

You can use various point-and-click windows to perform tasks in SAS. This method is relatively simple to use, and favored by many people. If you were using the point-and-click options you could open and use SAS products that work like this, such as SAS Enterprise Guide or JMP. SAS Studio also has a version of this sort of approach built in, called the ”Visual Programmer.”

Point-and-click has serious disadvantages, however, because there are often a great number of check boxs and options, and SAS does not remember your settings. Therefore, every time you re-start a certain section of SAS you have to re-enter many check box options. For this reason, we will ...