SAS_PACKAGES

SAS Packages Repository

The User:

• Create a folder for your packages, e.g. under Windows OS family C:/SAS_PACKAGES or under Linux/UNIX OS family /home/<username>/SAS_PACKAGES.
• Copy the loadpackage.sas file into the packages' folder.
• Copy the <packageName>.zip file into the packages' folder.
• Execute:

filename packages "<directory/containing/packages/>";
%include packages(loadpackage.sas);
%loadPackage(packageName)

The Developer:

Read the SAS(r) packages - the way to share (a how to)- Paper 4725-2020.pdf to learn more.

Avaliable packages:

• SQLinDS, allows to write SQL queries in the datastep
• DFA (Dynamic Function Arrays), contains FCMP implementation of dynamic array, stack, fifo, ordered stack, and priority queue
• dynMacroArray, set of macros (wrappers for a hash table) emulating dynamic array in the datastep
• macroArray, implementation of an array concept in macrolanguage (e.g. %array(ABC[17] (1:17), macarray=Y); %do i = 1 %to 17; %put %ABC(&i.); %end;)