SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1

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Free Online Course: SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1 provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1 is taught by Jordan Bakerman.

Overview
  • Discover how to apply your understanding of R—the language of big data—in the SAS environment.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    1. Introduction and Working in SAS
    • Introduction to SAS and SAS Studio
    • Demo: Working in SAS Studio
    • Demo: Writing a program in SAS Studio
    • Demo: Using tasks and snippets in SAS Studio
    • Demo: Bayesian Logistic Regression
    • Demo: Poker simulation
    • Demo: Determining power using simulation
    • Demo: Calling R from SAS
    • SAS libraries and user-defined libraries
    • SAS procedure syntax
    • Getting programming help
    • Demo: Navigating the online documentation
    2. Importing and Reporting Data
    • Creating datasets manually in the DATA step
    • Demo: Creating and viewing the data table
    • Importing raw data files
    • Demo: Importing data
    • Reporting data
    • Enhanced reporting: Labels and formats
    • The FORMAT statement
    • Demo: Labels, formats, and informats
    3. Creating New Variables, Functions, and Data Tables
    • Creating new variables and conditional processing
    • Conditionally creating variables with a DO group
    • Using SAS functions
    • Using SAS functions on character data
    • Demo: SAS function documentation
    • Creating functions for the DATA step
    • Subsetting data
    • Concatenating data sets
    • Match-merging data sets