What are SAS projects?

SAS Enterprise Guide uses projects to manage collections of related data, tasks, code, and results. With projects, you can run multiple tasks on the same group of data files, and you can save a project to run later in batch mode. When you create a project, you can organize and share your work.

Where is the project tree in SAS?

You can display multiple panes in the navigation area at one time. By default, the Project pane is displayed in the upper left corner of the SAS Enterprise Guide application, and it provides access to the project and its associated data, code, notes, and results.

How do I compare two SAS programs?

How to compare SAS programs in SAS Enterprise Guide

1. Install a file comparison tool. I like WinMerge.
2. Set your File Comparison options in SAS Enterprise Guide. Select Tools->Options, then the File Comparison tab.
3. Select the two files that you want to compare.

How do you save a project in SAS?

To avoid the problem, save the project using a file system that is local to the SAS Enterprise Guide installation or using a network location rather than using the SAS Workspace Server context. For example, to save to a local file system, select File ► Save Project As and then select My Computer ► C:\EG_Projects.

Is SAS difficult to learn?

SAS is easy to learn and provides easy option (PROC SQL) for people who already know SQL. Even otherwise, it has a good stable GUI interface in its repository. In terms of resources, there are tutorials available on websites of various university and SAS has a comprehensive documentation.

What is process flow in SAS?

A process flow consists of one or more objects and could contain a process tree. An object is represented by an icon in the process flow. Examples of objects include a data set, a task, and your results. A process tree shows the relationship between two or more objects.

What is the latest version of SAS Enterprise Guide?

SAS Enterprise Guide 8.3
The most recent release is SAS Enterprise Guide 8.3. SAS Enterprise Guide runs on SAS® 9.4, 9.3, and 9.2. It also supports SAS® Viya® 3.4 and 3.5.

What is PROC SQL?

PROC SQL is a powerful Base SAS7 Procedure that combines the functionality of DATA and PROC steps into a single step. PROC SQL can sort, summarize, subset, join (merge), and concatenate datasets, create new variables, and print the results or create a new table or view all in one step!

How do you save a SAS Enterprise Miner project?

ON THE VCL Blade, Launch Enterprise miner. Type in Name and Path for your ‘new’ project. Type in EXACTLY what you named the project originally. Be sure your path points EXACTLY to where you put it when you copied it back onto the vcl from your laptop.

Is SAS better than SQL?

In two sentences: If you are you making reports with graphs and tables as an end product to show people, save yourself time and use SQL. If you need to deep dive into the data and manipulate said data as a “transitional” product, use SAS.

Can you use Python in SAS?

SAS integrates with Python through various code libraries and tools that allow open source developers to unite the Python language with the analytic power of SAS. Which package to use depends on your role, goal, system environment and so on.

What makes a project in SAS Enterprise Guide?

Remember: a project is like a recipe. It tells you (and SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS) what the ingredients are and how to combine them, but it doesn’t always contain the ingredients themselves. The project refers to external pieces, such as data sets, .SAS files (programs) and data files to import.

What’s the difference between a macro program and a SAS program?

As for the difference between a SAS Program and a SAS Macro program — generally, you build your SAS Macro programs from working SAS programs. Consider the following program, composed of 3 steps:

Is there a difference between.sas and.egp files?

Yes there is a difference between .sas and .egp file. As you may have discovered .sas files are text files that contain SAS code (data steps and procs etc). An .egp file is a binary Enterprise Guide Project zip file that contains information about the project that may or may not have references to .sas programs.

How to document process flow in SAS Project?

If your project contains SAS programs, you would use SAS code comments to help make your program more readable and maintainable (unless of course, you are deliberately working to avoid that goal ). To document a process flow, add a note with File->New->Note.