Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:13:15 +0200
Reply-To: Daniel Fernández <fdezdan@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Daniel Fernández <fdezdan@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: How can we stop the "do nothing data step"?
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hi, I am not sure what you want and you mean with 'SAS programming standards'.
Perhaps the guy/gal can code:
dm 'vt perm.need';
Daniel Fernandez.
Barcelona
2009/10/23 Nathaniel Wooding <nathaniel.wooding@dom.com>:
> Opinion??
>
>
> Yes. The guy/gal got in the habit of doing this way back when they first started learning SAS and did not realize that they could simply reference Perm.Need in the Proc.
>
> At least it does not sound like they write
>
> Data need;
> Set perm.need;
> Run;
> Data need1;
> Set need;
> Run;
> Proc Print;
> Run ;
> Etc.
>
> Nat
>
>
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> Subject: How can we stop the "do nothing data step"?
>
> I'm working on a project and one of the programmers has a macro that I
> can use to compute the magic number. "The documentation is in the
> header so just open it up etc.".
>
> I open the program and read the header, looking at the parameters etc.
> and I scroll down to the macro definition and the very first thing I
> see is a "do nothing data step"
>
> data need;
> set perm.need;
> run;
>
> No subset(variables or obs), no sort, no new variables, no index
> creation, no nothing. The data set is used a bit further down in a
> PROC SQL and then it is sorted/nodupkey and the variables are subset,
> but "on the wrong side". That's another story so don't get me
> started.
>
> In fact some of my fellow team members do this quite often, which is
> perplexing to me because my client claims to very particular about
> "SAS programming standards".
>
> Opinions?
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