SAS Programming Experiences: A How-To Guide from a Power SAS User (PDF)

This subtitled How‑To Guide from a Power User is based on decades of thoughtful, self‑learning, adventurous SAS user programming experience. It can make you a better programmer, explaining how to do it better and why to do it better. Defensive programming and how to write reusable macros are must reads. Phil Holland understands the user interfaces to SAS software, whether interactive SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, or SAS Studio as well as anyone in the SAS development team, and perhaps better than most. He has been with the software all of the way. Read the history, the biography, of that software. He’s been using SAS EG and SAS Studio from their beginnings, and understands how they work, their strengths, and their value, and can take you inside the black box. Phil has used SAS on all of the platforms, mainframe, UNIX, and Windows. If Mac was a platform, Phil would take you as reader there, too. Learn how to use the software with the unexpected (e.g. other data sources), and for the unexpected (his hobbies). He takes you to Altair SLC, R, and Python, where you can be a user of the SAS language, and those two ever more popular adjuncts to SAS, without the expense of a SAS licence, and clarifies the differences between SAS Software and Altair SLC. The book includes a graphics capabilities tour with the various tools in its scope. Nowhere else available is the chapter devoted to Altair SLC for Clinical Trials, which is like a book‑guided Hands‑On Workshop self‑help get‑acquainted tutorial. The book will take you to places that nobody else would take you. Explore it and explore SAS.