spa

SAS Programming Area (for SAS Language)

This is intended for blank, single projects.

Usage:

• Clone repository
• Update programs/macros/setup.sas (and other setup*.sas files as necessary for the project)
• data/misc/define20map.xml - an XML map to access define.xml v2.0 data through libname xml engine

Playground rules (which are nice to follow, but..):

• 4 spaces to indent, UTF-8 encoding (no tabs)
• No code obscuring, hiding in the log.
• No compiled macros without source code.
• Macros updates/new features: backward compatible (if possible)
• Macros to declare %local or %global macro variable scape, use named macro parameters instead of positional (unless it is necessary),
• Macros to not change options (unless, user expects macro to be changing options, i.e. data processing or reporting macros should not change mprint mlogic etc. options)
• User defined log messages:
  • ERROR: (use put 'ER' 'ROR: ' or %put %sysfunc(cats(ER,ROR:)) for unexpected program path etc or detected issue)
  • WARNING: (use put 'WA' 'RNING: ' or %put %sysfunc(cats(WA,RNING:)) for correct program path, but most likely not expected, or deviated from expected
  • NOTICE: (use put 'NO' 'TICE: ' or %put %sysfunc(cats(NO,TICE:)) for debug or information
  • NOTE: only by SAS/WPS itself.
• Nice to have:
  • When not running in batch, produce all outputs into "work", so that actual outputs aren't modified until the program is batch submitted and log files are saved

TODO:

• Prepare metadata for TLFs (titles/footnotes etc.) and datasets (dependencies?)
• Prepare python script to output .md if it contains "md ... md;" comments.
• Log parser..

Disclaimer

Not affiliated with:

• CDISC (www.cdisc.org)
• SAS(R) (www.sas.com)
• World Programming (www.worldprogramming.com)