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Introduction

When you begin a SAS session, it's often convenient to set up your environment first. For example, you may want to

  • define libraries that contain the SAS data sets that you intend to use
  • specify whether your procedure output is created as an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document, a SAS listing, or both
  • set features of your SAS listings, such as whether the date and time appear
  • specify how two-digit year values should be interpreted.

This lesson shows you how to define libraries, reference SAS files, and specify options for your SAS session. You also learn how to specify the form(s) of output to produce.


SAS program, SAS libraries, and SAS system options

Time to Complete

This lesson contains pages and takes approximately 1 hour to complete.


Objectives

In this lesson, you learn to

  • define new libraries by using programming statements
  • reference SAS files to be used during your SAS session
  • set results options to determine the type of output produced (HTML, SAS listings, or both) in desktop operating environments
  • set system options to determine how date values are read and to control the appearance of listing output that is created during your SAS session.

 

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, you should complete the following lessons:

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