SAS User In this article we’re going to deep dive into the most common question from SAS users. I’m sure you’re also wondering how to convert variable values from numeric to character in SAS. On multiple occasions you do need to perform the data value conversion especially when you’re reading data from different sources. The multiple sources … Read more
SAS has a really interesting function known as INTNX. You can use this function to control the dates and get desired value by passing proper arguments in the INTNX function. SAS INTNX Function: The INTNX function increments a date, time, or datetime value by intervals such as DAY, WEEK, QTR, and MINUTE, or a custom … Read more
SAS has a really interesting function INTNX where you can control dates and it can be used to get any desired value from dates. Furthermore you can easily assign that value to the macro variable. SAS INTNX Function: The INTNX function increments a date, time, or datetime value by intervals such as DAY, WEEK, QTR, … Read more
The WEEKDAY function produces an integer that represents the day of the week, where 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, …, 7 = Saturday. Basic Syntax: WEEKDAY(<date>); WEEKDAY(<date>); Here is the complete table of how the weekday function returns the values. Sunday 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 … Read more
In SAS, dates are stored in numeric and days are calculated by considering the default cut off date which is January 01, 1960 and the date specified. When you’re dealing with SAS dates and calculating time or days, the cut off date is very important. To calculate age you need two values, the first is … Read more
The INTCK function in SAS returns the number of interval boundaries that lie between two SAS dates, times, or timestamp values. It’s a super powerful function in SAS which is being used widely when calculating date intervals between two dates. Syntax of INTCK function: INTCK(interval , start-date-time, end-date-time, <'method'>) INTCK(interval , start-date-time, end-date-time, <‘method’>) method: … Read more
The INTCK function in SAS returns the number of interval boundaries that lie between two SAS dates, times, or timestamp values. It’s a super powerful function in SAS which is being used in many various ways. I have seen it being used extensively in the where clause where you filter out the data by calculating … Read more
SAS gives you more flexibility to write a SAS code and create new datasets with keeping or dropping specific variables (columns) from a base dataset. We have two SAS options DROP= and KEEP= which we can use to have more controls on column level while reading and creating sas datasets. Things will be more clear … Read more
The basic SQL concept is still the same in SAS. The DELETE statement deletes only the rows (data) in a table. The DROP TABLE statement removes the table from the database completely, including the table structure. DELETE Statement in SAS This is the most commonly used statement to remove a few, specific groups of observations, … Read more
In this post you’ll learn how to delete datasets in SAS using 3 simple ways. It also explains how you can drop the entire SAS dataset and/or entire data from a specific library. Short Summary: Delete table v/s Drop table The DELETE statement deletes only the rows (data) in a table. The DROP TABLE statement … Read more