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Many of these FAQs are provided courtesy of the University of Texas Statistical Services. If you follow a link to one of their pages, please make sure not to direct email queries to the email address found on those pages which points to the University of Texas. Please refer all questions about st atistical computing software to res-consult@virginia.edu.

In addition to the FAQs found on this page, you might also want to visit the extensive set of SAS FAQs maintained by SAS itself.

General SAS Questions

1. Outputting values to raw data file using SAS
2. Reading Adjacent Year, Month, and Day values using SAS
3. Inputting a Data file with record length > 80 using SAS
4. Outputting tab or comma delimited data using SAS
5. Removing duplicate observations in a SAS dataset
6. SAS Linesize option
7. Catching data entry errors with SAS
8. Creating a counter variable in SAS
9. SAS chi-square test of indepdence and the phi coefficient
10. Computing a Kappa statistic using SAS
11. What is the SAS version 6 equivalent of PROC SIMNLIN?
12. Using the SAS KEEP & DROP Statements
13. Fix for VMS SAS Transport files
14. Percentile ranks with SAS
15. SAS/GRAPH scatter plots of predicted values
16. Selection of a random subset of data in SAS
17. Formatting dates for output in SAS
18. SAS error codes
19. File relationships in SAS
20. Plot size settings in PROC PLOT
21. Variable labels in SAS
22. Summing variables with missing data in SAS
23. Data as percentages in SAS
24. Appending mean values to each observation in SAS
25. Confirmatory factor analysis using SAS
26. Pagesize option in SAS
27. Plotting a regression line using SAS/GRAPH
28. Internal consistency statistics using SAS
29. Missing F-ratios and P-values in SAS GLM ANOVA
30. Transfer of SAS datasets
31. Uncompressing .Z files within SAS
32. SAS missing values
33. Reading hierarchical raw data files
34. Using SAS Macro Language
35. Jacknife regression using SAS
36. Reading in a subset of cases in SAS
37. Reading variable-length character strings into SAS
38. Testing homogeneity of cell covariance matrices with SAS
39. Special characters in SAS variable name
40. Repeated measures ANOVA with SAS PROC GLM
41. Hierarchical Regression Using SAS
42. Identifying nonmatches in a SAS match MERGE
43. Stepping through a SAS program to debug it
44. Confidence intervals for cross-tabulated frequencies in SAS
45. One-way ANOVA from summary statistics
46. Overlaid lines in SAS/GRAPH
47. Superimposed SAS/GRAPH plot
48. PC SAS/GRAPH device names
49. Printing color output from SAS/GRAPH
50. SAS test of marginal homogeneity
51. Debugging SAS code
52. Removing centering and header information
53. Mean substitution using SAS
54. Placement of IF statements in SAS
55. Counting occurrences of patterns in SAS character-valued data
56. SAS cell chi-square test
57. Overlay of histogram with Normal probability plot using SAS
58. Reading compressed SAS transport files
59. Replacing missing data from a second file
60. Using an array in SAS to detect missing values
61. Customizing PROC PRINT output in SAS
62. Generating random numbers with SAS
63. Recoding variable values into missing values in SAS
64. Three dimensional plotting with SAS
65. Using the POINT and NOBS options with the SAS SET statement
66. Displaying SAS output in Word
67. One-to-many dataset merging with SAS
68. Changing SAS output delimiter
69. Generating design matrices in SAS
70. SAS output of greater than 132 columns
71. Formatting SAS data
72. Computing an Intraclass Correlation using SAS
73. Inputting missing data using SAS
74. Counting if a condition is satisfied
75. Duplicating observations using SAS
76. Creating a lead or lag variable using SAS
77. Combining multiple lines into one using SAS
78. Testing equality of slopes for two repeated measures variables in SAS
79. Numbers and a ruler in the SAS program editor
80. Reading comma-delimited data using SAS
81. Converting SAS multivariate repeated measures data to univariate format
82. Updating the SAS System license
83. SAS out of memory
84. Creating a SAS data set from an Ascii File
85. Reverse scoring survey items using SAS
86. Contrast coding using PROC MIXED
87. Extracting cases with a given string from SAS
88. How can I read multiple values per line as one variable per case?

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    SAS for Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT

89. Installing SAS crashes my Windows95 system
90. Reading Excel files using SAS under Windows95

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    SAS for Macintosh

91. Difficulties updating my license for SAS 6.12 for Macintosh
92. Excel to SAS Conversion for Macintosh
93. SAS FAQ SAS license updates for Macintosh
94. SAS FAQ on SAS and Macintosh OS X

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    PC SAS

95. I did some analyses interactively in PC SAS, and everything worked fine, but when I got out, there were no .LOG or .LST files and my commands were not saved either. What happened to th em?
96. I want to print out my results in PC SAS, but I can't find a PRINT command? How do I print in PC SAS?
97. If I run a SAS file non-interactively I do not need to have a RUN; statement after each command. When I tried this in the interactive SAS I didn't get output for the last command.
98. How can I convert a DBase file into SAS?
99. How can I create an export file in PC SAS?
100. How can I import a SAS transport data set in PC SAS?
101. How can I import an SPSS transport file into SAS?
102. How can I import an SPSS export file into SAS?

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     SAS on Unix

103. Where is the default work directory?
104. How can I redirect the work files to a directory of my choice?
105. I am trying to read or write a SAS permanent dataset to my /archive account (the mass storage device) but keep getting the error:

        If you're reading a SAS dataset in the /archive directories:
        "ERROR: READ lock is not available for LIBNAME.MEMBERNAME.DATA, 
        lock held by unknown process." 
     
        OR 
     
        if you're trying to write a SAS dataset to a /archive directory:
        "ERROR: WRITE lock is not available for SASLIB.DELETE.DATA, 
        lock held by unknown process."
     

106. How can I save paper when I print my output? Everytime I print, half of my pages only have 3 or 4 lines.
107. Running the SAS Display Manager System
108. SAS System Options in the UNIX environment
109. Calling SAS macros on UNIX systems
110. FATAL: Unable to initialize work library on SAS for UNIX

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     SAS Enterprise Guide

111. I was able to run the System Requirements Wizard fine, but I'm getting the following errors at the end of the installation:

     ERROR 
     Delay load of library SASECUT4.dll failed with return code 0x0000007e
     The specified module could not be found.
     
     ERROR
     Delay load of library xerces_c_1_5_1.dll failed with return code 0x0000007e
     The specified module could not be found.
     
     PROGRAM ERROR
     SEGTask.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.
     
     
     PROGRAM ERROR
     seguide.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.