SAS PROCEDURES (Definitions)

PROC REPORT

Combines PROC PRINT, MEANS, and TABULATE with features of the DATA step in a single report-writing tool that can produce both detail and summary reports.

PROC COMPARE

Compares the contents of two SAS data sets.

PROC MEANS

Computes descriptive statistics for numeric variables across all observations and within groups of observations. You can also create an output data set that contains specific statistics and identifies minimum and maximum values for groups of observations.

PROC CONTENTS

Describes the contents of a SAS library or specific library members

PROC PRINT

Prints the observations in a SAS data set, using all or some of the variables. Can also print totals and subtotals for numeric variables.

PROC PLOT

Produces scatter plots that graph one variable against another. The coordinates of each point on the plot correspond to the two variables' values in one or more observations of the input data set.

PROC SQL

Supplies information through dictionary tables on an individual SAS data set as well as all SAS files active in the current SAS session. Dictionary tables can also provide information about macros, titles, indexes, external files, or SAS system options.

PROC APPEND

adds observations from one SAS data set to the end of another SAS data set.

PROC FONTREG

adds system fonts to the SAS registry

PROC UNIVARIATE

computes descriptive statistics (including quantiles), confidence intervals, and robust estimates for numeric variables. Provides detail on the distribution of numeric variables, which include tests for normality, plots to illustrate the distribution, frequency tables, and tests of location.

PROC SUMMARY

computes descriptive statistics for the variables in a SAS data across all observations and within groups of observations and outputs the results to a new SAS data set.

PROC RANK

computes ranks for one or more numeric variables across the observations of a SAS data set. The ranks are written to a new SAS data set. produces normal scores or other rank scores

PROC CV2VIEW

converts SAS/ACCESS view descriptors to PROC SQL views. Starting in SAS System 9, conversion of SAS/ACCESS view descriptors to PROC SQL views is recommended because PROC SQL views are platform-independent and enable you to use the LIBNAME statement

PROC JAVAINFO

conveys diagnostic information about the Java environment that SAS is using.

PROC COPY

copies an entire SAS library or specific members of the library. You can limit processing to specific types of library members

PROC INFOMAPS

creates or updates a SAS Information Map

PROC PRTDEF

creates printer definitions for individual SAS users or all SAS users

PROC FORMAT

creates user-defined informats and formats for character or numeric variables. Prints the contents of a format library, creates a control data set to write other informats or formats, and reads a control data set to create informats or formats.

PROC TEMPLATE

customizes ODS output for an entire SAS job or a single ODS output object

PROC CALENDAR

displays data from a SAS data set in a monthly calendar format. Can display holidays in the month, schedule tasks, and process data for multiple calendars with work schedules that vary.

PROC TABULATE

displays descriptive statistics in tabular form. The value in each table cell is calculated from the variables and statistics that define the pages, rows, and columns of the table. The statistic associated with each cell is calculated on values from all observations in that category. You can write the results to a SAS data set.

PROC FCMP

enables you to create, test, and store SAS functions and subroutines before you use them in other SAS procedures. PROC FCMP accepts slight variations of DATA step statements.

PROC PROTO

enables you to register, in batch mode, external functions that are written in the C or C++ programming languages. You can use these functions in SAS as well as in C-language structures and types. After these functions are registered , they can be called from any SAS function or subroutine that is declared in the FCMP procedure, as well as from any SAS function, subroutine, or method block that is declared in the COMPILE procedure

PROC DISPLAY

executes SAS/AF applications.

PROC PRTEXP

exports printer definition attributes to a SAS data set so that they can be easily replicated and modified

PROC BMDP

invokes a BMDP program to analyze data in a SAS data set. See the SAS documentation for your operating environment for more information

PROC DATASETS

lists, copies, renames, and deletes SAS files and SAS generation groups; manages indexes; and appends SAS data sets in a SAS library. The procedure provides all the capabilities of the APPEND, CONTENTS, and COPY procedures. You can also modify variables within data sets; manage data set attributes, such as labels and passwords; or create and delete integrity constraints.

PROC CATALOG

manages entries in SAS catalogs. Is an interactive, non-windowing procedure that enables you to display the contents of a catalog; copy an entire catalog or specific entries in a catalog; and rename, exchange, or delete entries in a catalog.

PROC DOCUMENT

manipulates procedure output that is stored in ODS documents. enables a user to browse and edit output objects and hierarchies, and to replay them to any supported ODS output format.

PROC FREQ

produces one-way to n-way frequency tables and reports frequency counts. Can compute chi-square tests for one-way to n-way tables; for tests and measures of association and of agreement for two-way to n-way cross-tabulation tables; risks and risk difference for 2x2 tables; trends tests;and Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel statistics. You can also create output data sets

PROC TIMEPLOT

produces plots of one or more variables over time intervals

PROC CHART

produces vertical and horizontal bar charts, block charts, pie charts, and star charts. These charts provide a quick visual representation of the values of a single variable or several variables. Can also display a statistic associated with the values.

PROC SOURCE

provides an easy way to back up and process source library data sets.

PROC EXPORT

reads data from a SAS data set and writes it to an external data source

PROC IMPORT

reads data from an external data source and writes them to a SAS data set

PROC SORT

sorts observations in a SAS data set by one or more variables. PROC SORT stores the resulting sorted observations in a new SAS data set or replaces the original data set.

PROC STANDARD

standardizes some or all of the variables in a SAS data set to a given mean and standard deviation and produces a new SAS data set that contains the standardized values.

PROC XSL

transforms an XML document into another format, such as HTML, text, or another XML document type

PROC TRANSPOSE

transposes a data set that changes observations into variables and vice versa.