SAS Packages Framework, version `20260602`
Changes:
- New macro: `%requestPackage()`;
- Error fix for `githubRepo=` selection in the `%installPackage()` macro;
- check for already loaded packages added to the `%loadPackage()` macro to avoid unnecessary re-loading;
- update in `CMPLIB` cleaning for the `%unloadPacjkage()` macro.
SAS Packages Framework, version `20260515`
Changes:
Two new parameters in the `%unbundlePackages()` macro:
- `reportOnly=` - *Optional.* Indicates if packages unbundling should be suspended and only a report with bundle content be produced and printed. Value `1` means yes, Value `0` (default) means no.
- `quiet=` - *Optional.* Indicates if printout of the summary report should be suspended. Value `1` means yes, Value `0` (default) means no.
Materials for NJSUG 2026 Webinar:
Future of Statistical Programming
Fri, May 8, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM ET
Le petit SAS package - a workshop about the "Hello World" SAS package.
SAS Packages Framework, version `20260411`
New parameters added to the %installPackage() macro:
- backup
A backup copy of already installed package can be created before installing new one.
SAS Packages Framework, version `20260409`
New parameters added to the %installPackage() macro:
- githubRepo
- githubToken
With properly configured fine-grained personal access token for GitHub packages from private repos can be installed now.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20260216
BugFix:
- When package loading with `cherryPick=` is done the `<packageName>META` is created. This should not be the case. Release 20260216 fixes the issue.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20260202
Changes:
-If the `hash=` parameter is not provided the %verifyPackage() macro prints SHA256, SHA1, and MD5 hashes to the log now.
- Small fix in the %unbundlePackage() macro.
- Bunch general code simplifications.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework version 20260126
Changes:
- A utility function and a utility macro is now added to every package generated with %generatePackage() macro.
- Documentation updated.
Packages regenerated:
- BasePlus: F*91A5AD4709A418704315EF37DDCF954522D4FB42808D406B3ED4DA560F6864C6
- DFA: F*643FBE2B7AE1425FC0240139813B93AE2C6BCFFDF6A0CFAEBEC11F83D3548E57
- GSM: F*7A4FEC410DEB921613A33F154FBBE332D7EC4C4DAC1351A4E611D986489EE848
- macroArray: F*9DA64CA9A745E1DB7176F7AF4459BB014F61F71626473ABF6471A32689E14FF1
- SQLinDS: F*CEAA4C90515F6E8AACBFFD55ABA6544E399EDBE0A7081107B62DCEE6F5430A1D
- bpUTiL: F*D03FD84D518F0CF4E0042BFEA864D9118D7FF97265DC49019425878BDBA31FE8
- evExpress: F*A8A4B0389A765D4D22FDD7AF42C542C2AC537F0D81FFB2B65605C60B1E9CB1B4
SAS Packages Framework, version 20251231
Changes:
- New macro: %bundlePackages().
- New macro: %unbundlePackages().
- Bug fix in %verifyPackage() macro.
- Minor updates in %generatePackage(), %listPackages(), and %relocatePackage() macros.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version `20251228`:
Two new parameters were added to the `%generatePackage()`:
- `buildLocation=`,
- `archLocation=`.
The `easyArch=` option is independent.
Three technical sub-macros were extracted from the `%generatePackage()`.
Minor code housekeeping.
Documentation updated.
---
Code cleaning and new parameters are results of collaboration and discussion with Ken Nakamatsu (https://github.com/k-nkmt). Thanks Ken!
SAS Packages Framework, version 20251221
Changes:
- 3 new macros: `%relocatePackage()`, `%SasPackagesFrameworkNotes()`, and `%isPackagesFilerefOK()` added.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20251221
Changes:
- 3 new macros: `%relocatePackage()`, `%SasPackagesFrameworkNotes()`, and `%isPackagesFilerefOK()` added.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20251126
Changes:
- Automatic documentation generator in the %generatePackage() macro can now exclude files generated by `%splitCodeForPackage()` macro.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20251122
Changes:
- When a package is generated with the `%generatePackage()` macro, additional info about operating system and SAS release are added to the help notes.
- Documentation updated.
The SQLinDS package [ver. 2.3.1]
Package regenerated with SAS Packages Framework, version 20251122. No functional changes, documentation cleaned up.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20251017
Changes:
- New parameters `workInTestResults=` and `testWorkPath=` added to the `%generatePackage()` macro.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20250728
Changes:
- The `mirror=3` parameter in the `%installPackage()` macro allows access `https://github.com/PharmaForest/`.
- Values `SASPAC` and `PharmaForest` are accepted by the `mirror=` parameter in the `%installPackage()` macro.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20250710
Changes:
- Framework's code cleanup: all uses of the autocall `%lowcase()` macro were removed or replaced by `%sysfunc(lowcase(...))` call.
- Formatting of the default MIT license text in the `%generatePackage()` macro was changed.
- The `sourcePath=` parameter in the `%installPackage()` macro now allows both quoted and un-quoted address.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20241207
Changes:
- New parameter `instDoc=` in the `%installPackage()` macro allows to download (if one is available) the `.md` documentation file for a package.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20241102
Changes:
In the `%loadPackage()`, the `%ICEloadPackage()`, and the `%loadPackageAddCnt()` macros version of a package can be provided with a comparison condition.
If the required version is provided with a comparison operator, e.g., `<=`, `=`, or `>`, then the operator is used to compare `required` and `provided` versions.
The following example:
```sas
%loadPackage(myPackage
,requiredVersion=1.2.2=
)
```
will force to load the package only if the required version is exactly equal to the provided one.
Comparison is done in form "`req. comparison prov.`".
Documentation and HoW-materials updated.
#SAS Packages Framework, version `20241014`
## Changes
---
The [%generatePackage()]{https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/SPF/SPFinit.md#generatepackage} macro accepts two new code types:
- `DS2PCK` for Proc DS2 packages, and
- `DS2THR` for Proc DS2 threads.
Those two new types allow to add `PROC DS2` *threads* and *packages* to a SAS package.
---
The [%loadPackage()]{https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/blob/main/SPF/SPFinit.md#loadpackage} macro has new parameter:
- `DS2force` - when set to `1` an existing data set named the same as thread or package is overwritten by DS2 file.
While loading a package that contains `PRCO DS2` code, by default, if there already exist a SAS data set with the same name (which is not a DS2 thread or package file) a warning is issued in the log and the thread/package data set is not generated. To force overwrite, set the `DS2force=` parameter of the `%loadPackage()` macro to 1.
---
Minor updates and fixes:
- Proc `sql` "drop table" replaced with `fedsqsl`'s for data sets deletion.
- Proc `iml`, `fcmp`, and `proto` code blocks end with `quit;` statement.
---
[Documentation]{https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES/tree/main/SPF/Documentation} and [Hands-on-Workshops materials]{https://github.com/yabwon/HoW-SASPackages} updated.
---
## SAS Packages Framework, version `20240927`
---
### Changes
- Aesthetic changes in log when running the `%installPackage()` macro, notes about successful/failed installation.
- New parameter `SFRCVN` added to the `%installPackage()` macro, `SFRCVN` provides a *name* for a macro variable to store value of the *success-failure return code* of the installation process. Return value has the following form: `<number of successes>.<number of failures>` The macro variable is created as a *global* macro variable.
- Documentation updated.
---
SAS Packages Framework, version `20240529`
Changes:
- aesthetic changes in log when running `%generatePackage()` macro,
- reshaped format of an automatic documentation header,
- and little bug fix for automatic documentation generation (for excluding file from documentation the `IN` operator should be used instead `IN:`).
---
BasePlus, version `1.39.0`
Changes:
- new parameter `DSout=` added in `%downloadFilesTo()` macro,
- file SHA256: `F*3C3A2050E3FF46E1FC0F936634A66FC3F294A3531EFE0A7DC9CE74F2EF17C687` for this version.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20240423
A minor aesthetic update in a log note about KMF snippets added to `%generatePackage()` macro. Does not change any functionality, just make it look nicer.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20240415
Features:
- In the `%generatePackage()` macro, when `markdownDoc=` parameters is used, packages files can be "excluded" from being used to produce documentation markdown file.
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework, version 20231210
Changes:
- Two new parameters added for the `%generatePackage()` macro.
The parameters are:
- `markdownDoc=` - Indicates if a markdown file with documentation be generated from help information blocks.
- `easyArch=` - When creating documentation file (`markdownDoc=1`) it indicates if a copy of the zip and markdown files with the version number in the file name be created.
- The `HelloWorldPackage.md` example updated.
- Documentation updated.
## SAS Packages Framework, version `20231123`
### Changes in SPF
- Minor update in log aesthetics for `%generatePackage()` macro.
---
### The macroArray package [ver. 1.2.3]
- Update in `q=` parameter for the `%array()` macro.
- Fix in data set existence for `ds=` parameter in the `%array()` macro.
- Documentation updated.
---
### Packages regenerated with the latest version of SPF:
- macroArray package [ver. 1.2.3]
SHA256 digests for packages:
- macroArray: `F*A0840B92EB9356EDB318DBE9B579A345C85ABF69E8D5F7C73C144C66F2F74FB4`
## SAS Packages Framework, version `20231107`
Minor fix. An ugly note in log removed for `%loadPackageAddCnt()` macro.
## The BasePlus package [ver. 1.33.0]
- New macro [`%unzipArch()`](https://github.com/SASPAC/baseplus/blob/main/baseplus.md#unziparch-macro) added. The macro allows to extract ZIP archive file from SAS session and does not need `XCMD` (is OS independent).
- Documentation updated.
## The GSM package [ver. 0.22.0]
- Article explaining details of "macro hiding" added as an additional content to the package.
## The macroArray package [ver. 1.2.0]
- New parameters added to the [`%mcDictionary()`](https://github.com/SASPAC/macroarray/blob/main/macroarray.md#mcdictionary-macro) macro which allows to populate dictionary directly from a data set (see the last example in doc.).
- Documentation updated.
SAS Packages Framework version 20231024
Modification in `%generatePackage()` macro. Situation when dependencies for package are missing is now handled more gracefully. It's still an error message, but now it ends more elegant way.
## SAS Packages Framework, version `20230904`
---
New features in this release are:
- in `%generatePackage()` macro - test for check of duplicated names of the same type was added to the package generation process.
- in `%loadPackage()` macro - User can now suppress running the `exec` type files during the loading process. Parameter name is `suppressExec=`.
- in `%helpPackage()` macro - User can now generate dataset `work.packageName_content` containing list of the package elements similar to the one printed in the log. Parameter name is `packageContentDS=`.
Documentation updated.
---
Packages regenerated with new version of the SPF:
- BasePlus package [ver. `1.29.1`]
- DFA package [ver. `0.5.6`]
- GSM package [ver. `0.21.1`]
- macroArray package [ver. `1.0.6`]
- SQLinDS package [ver. `2.2.7`]
- dynMacroArray package [ver. `0.2.6`]
SAS Packages Framework, version 20230520
Fixes:
- Bug fixes for the "Additional Content" feature. In the `%loadPackageAddCnt()` and `%generatePackage()` macros lengths of the "file path" variables were extended.
Packages:
- The `BasePlus` package, version `1.24.1` was regenerated with latest version of the framework.
- The `%RainCloudPlot()` macro from the `BasePlus` packages was updated with new parameters (see the documentation).
Documentation:
- Documentation updated.
Bart Jablonski