topic Re: Compile a macro from GitHub gist in SAS Programming

Compile a macro from GitHub gist

MetinBulus — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:47:44 GMT

Hi all, is there a way to compile a macro directly from GitHub gist?

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:02:43 GMT

SAS macros are code pieces provided as text. Copy/paste into a code window, and run that. That compiles the macro for the current SAS session.

MetinBulus — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:11:22 GMT

I am using the following but it doesn't work

%include "https://gist.github.com/.../....";

Here is the warning:

WARNING: Physical file does not exist, C:\Windows\system32\https:\\gist.github.com\...\...

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:29:57 GMT

%include only works from the local filesystem, it can't resolve URLs.

So you need to download the file to your SAS machine and include from there.

MetinBulus — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:59:47 GMT

Thank you, I will advise those plan to use the macro to download and run %include.