Getting Started with SAS Programming

Chapter 4: Creating Reports

Introduction

In the last chapter, you saw how to use the Import Data facility on the Utilities tab to import data. In this chapter, you will see how to use several of the most useful tasks as well as the Query tool on the Utilities tab.

It is worth repeating this note from the previous chapter: In this book, as well as in SAS Studio, you will see the terms SAS data set and table used interchangeably as well as these other equivalent terms: variables are also called columns and observations are called rows.

Using the List Data Task to Create a Simple Listing

SAS Studio has dozens of built-in tasks. If you expand the Tasks tab and click the Data tab, you will see the following.

Figure 4.1: Data Tasks

You can use the ...