From the course: SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1

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Demo: Using tasks and snippets in SAS Studio

Demo: Using tasks and snippets in SAS Studio - SAS Tutorial

From the course: SAS Programming for R Users, Part 1

Demo: Using tasks and snippets in SAS Studio

- [Instructor] Next, let's explore some of the tasks in SAS Studio, and remember tasks are powerful point and click tools that allow you to generate code behind the scenes. So let's go to the tasks tab and then click the arrow next to tasks. The tasks here are organized into categories similarly to the library, so here we have data, graph, combinatorics and probability, statistics and so on. I'm going to use the statistics tasks and here again you'll notice data exploration, summary statistics, correlation and so on. Let's find some descriptive statistics using the summary statistics tasks. You notice when I double click on that, again it opens a new tab in my work area. It initializes some code for me and you notice everything in green just like an R is going to be comment code and everything between the slash star and the last star slash is going to be commented out. Under data, click the select a table and we're going to analyze the cars dataset again so select SAS help and scroll…

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