This SAS Programming - Data Manipulation Techniques training course is for those who need to learn data manipulation techniques using the SAS DATA step and procedures to access, transform, and summarize data. The course builds on the concepts that are presented in the SAS Programming - Essentials course and is not recommended for beginning SAS software users.
By attending SAS Programming - Data Manipulation Techniques workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Understand and control DATA step processing
- Create an accumulating column and process data in groups
- Manipulate data with functions
- Convert column type
- Create custom formats
- Concatenate and merge tables
- Process repetitive code
- Restructure tables
- Write DATA step code to subset rows and columns, compute new columns, and process data conditionally
- Sort tables using the SORT procedure
- Apply SAS formats
The SAS Programming - Data Manipulation Techniques class is ideal for:
- Business analysts and SAS programmers