Subhro

Subhro Kar is an Analyst with over five years of experience. As a programmer specializing in SAS (Statistical Analysis System), Subhro also offers tutorials and guides on how to approach the coding language. His website, 9to5sas, offers students and new programmers useful easy-to-grasp resources to help them understand the fundamentals of SAS. Through this website, he shares his passion for programming while giving back to up-and-coming programmers in the field. Subhro’s mission is to offer quality tips, tricks, and lessons that give SAS beginners the skills they need to succeed.

How to Copy datasets in SAS?

April 3, 2022January 9, 2022 by Subhro

You can use high-level procedures PROC COPY and PROC DATASETS for moving and copying SAS datasets between libraries.They provide much more control over what data sets you want to move and this approach is more efficient.

How to truncate Decimals in SAS?

February 12, 2022January 6, 2022 by Subhro

Sometimes you may need to truncate numeric values to a specified number of decimal places without rounding. In this article, you will learn to truncate decimals in SAS, without rounding.

How to Round Numbers in SAS?

February 12, 2022December 6, 2021 by Subhro

The ROUND function rounds the numbers to the nearest multiple of the rounding factor. Round up or ceil in SAS uses ceil() function which rounds up the column in SAS. Round down in SAS or floor in SAS uses floor() function which rounds down.

Get column value from column name

February 10, 2022October 19, 2021 by Subhro

There are times when we need to use the attributes like the column value from the column name or format of a variable within a data set. The VValue and Vvaluex functions can be used to return the format and/or value of a variable or a string within the data step.

Convert all character variables to numeric automatically

February 10, 2022September 26, 2021 by Subhro

A character variable can store numbers, but analyses require numeric variables. This example shows how to convert all character variables to numeric.

How to get today’s date in SAS?

February 10, 2022September 11, 2021 by Subhro

To get today’s date in SAS, you can either the today() or date() functions. They are equivalent and represents the number of days since January 1, 1960. Datetime() function returns SAS value represents the number of seconds between January 1, 1960, and the current time.

Step-by-Step Techniques to Understand Linear Regression

April 9, 2022September 8, 2021 by Subhro

Linear Regression Importance. Read on to understand how to Prepare for a Linear Regression Analysis, its advantages and understanding Basic Concepts in Statistics

Creating a custom sort order in SAS

February 10, 2022August 29, 2021 by Subhro

Sometimes, we prefer to sort variables manually with a custom sort order rather than alphabetically or Numerical sequence.The first solution is to create user-defined formats that map the DelayCategory to a number that represents the order in which the records will appear.

How to read zip files in SAS?

August 29, 2021August 28, 2021 by Subhro

You can read zip files in SAS without having to decompress the file first. SAS will first unzip the file and then input the data set through the zip engine.