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New edition of the Cody classic: Learning SAS® by Example

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Hello fellow SAS programmers!

I know you all have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of my second edition of Learning SAS® by Example: A Programmer’s Guide (aka The Big Red Book). I can’t believe it has already been 10 years since I first published Learning SAS by Example-everyone loved it so much, we had to do another!

To kick-off the new edition, I wanted to tell you about an exciting new chapter on regular expressions, and the substitution of a chapter on PROC SGPLOT to replace the old SAS Graph chapter.
 

Want a quick sneak-peak?

Here is an example from the regular expression’s chapter.

Tip: Want to check that your phone numbers are in a standard form? Just run the program below:

Here is the resulting output:

Simple but effective!

You will find (or already know) that cleaning your data takes up around 80% of the total analysis – your analysis is only as good as the quality of your data. As you become more efficient BASE SAS programming you will want to think more about how to clean up that data - here in this video I talk about the latest edition of my data cleaning book.

Meeting and talking to SAS programmers at conferences is one of my favorite things about being a SAS Press author! I love to hear about your experience learning to program with my SAS books, and I can’t wait to discuss how my books have helped you along your SAS programming journey.

What insight did you learn from the first edition of Learning SAS® by Example that you are hoping to see in this new edition?

Check out Learning SAS® by Example, Second Edition and my other books here: SAS Press Books: Ron Cody.

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Ron Cody

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Dr. Ron Cody was a Professor of Biostatistics at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey for 26 years. During his tenure at the medical school, he taught biostatistics to medical students as well as students in the Rutgers School of Public Health. While on the faculty, he authored or co-authored over a hundred papers in scientific journals. His first book, Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, was first published by Prentice Hall in 1985 and is now in its fifth edition. Since then, he has published over a dozen books on SAS programming and statistical analysis using SAS. His latest book, A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio was published this year. Ron has presented numerous papers at SAS Global forums, regional conferences, as well as local user groups. He is presently a contract instructor for SAS Institute and continues to write books on SAS and statistical topics.

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  3. Rebecca on

    Are the programs and datasets used in the second edition the same as those used in the first edition? I cannot find legacy downloads of first edition materials anywhere on the SAS website. I have the first edition, and would like to use the programs associated with it for learning.

  4. Yong He on

    I am learning SAS using this book. Many of your programs do not have the code for importing the data sets that are in txt for csv formats, which makes me run the code difficult. For example, I cannot run the program p20.7. Was I wrong? Thanks.

    • Ron on

      Hi.

      You should find a program called Create_Datasets.sas in the download package. If you run that it will create all the data sets (including Stocks) used in the book. If you can't find that program, please email me at ron.cody@gmail.com. Best,
      Ron Cody

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