PREPARATION YOU WOULD DO BEFORE WRITING SAS CODE. CODE
When you construct SAS data tables using SAS code or data management tools such as SAS Data Integration Studio, data descriptions which are quite mundane can overshadow the rest of your more sophisticated data processing logic. Therefore, a SAS data template is a SAS dataset (data table) containing the descriptor portion with all necessary attributes defined (variable types, labels, lengths, formats, and informats) and empty (zero observations) data portion. But no templates for data?Īt that point I paused, struggling to accept reality, but then felt compelled to come up with my own definition:Ī data template is a well-defined data structure containing a data descriptor but no data. Do you?) We have templates for everything in the world: MS Word templates, C++ templates, Photoshop templates, website templates, holiday templates, we even have our own PROC TEMPLATE.
What do you mean “no results?!” (Yes, sometimes I talk to the Internet. Here I share with you a data preparation approach and SAS coding technique that will significantly simplify, unclutter and streamline your SAS programming life by using data templates.ĭ defines template as “anything that determines or serves as a pattern a model.” However, I was flabbergasted when my “prior art research” for the topic of this blog post ended rather abruptly: “No results found for data template.” My New Year's resolution: “Unclutter your life” and I hope this post will help you do the same.
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