topic Re: Sas Stop Valve? in SAS Procedures

Sas Stop Valve?

DDX — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:32:04 GMT

Does anyone else ever accidentally hit run in a program with a long code without anything selected? I've done it and seen it happen a million times. I wonder if anyone knew of a macro/option that I could put at the top of my code that would just abort anything after that command. I know stop all submitted commands in an option but I have to end up re-running my datasets most of the time so it doesn't save too much time. I'm currently just commenting out large tasks but it doesn't really address the issue.

Thanks!

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

LinusH — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:51:43 GMT

You could embed the code you don't want to execute into a macro definition. It will be visible in the log, but not executed.

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

PaigeMiller — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:55:55 GMT

I wonder if anyone knew of a macro/option that I could put at the top of my code that would just abort anything after that command.

You want a statement that can go as the first statement of your code that will prevent any code from executing if you accidentally hit run when nothing is selected. I am not aware of anything like this.

This seems like a double edged sword, because when you do want the whole set of statements to execute, you have to remove or comment out whatever is the first statement.

I prefer cancelling execution via Ctrl-Break (on Windows).

In a macro environment you can use a %goto statement to skip certain code (including as the first executable line of the macro if you want) or %if 0 %then %do; followed by an %end; statement somewhere to comment out blocks of code.

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

DDX — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:00:15 GMT

Thanks!

I guess I've never tried using control break, so I'll start there. I'll look into that macro option, but I didn't want to get too automated because the process I'm skipping is a data step which I'm refining all the time. From what both of you are saying though the macro option seems to be my best bet so far.

Thanks Again

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

ballardw — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:15:08 GMT

This may be a kludge but if there is a data set you don't want to run unless selected:

Data wanttorunamanually;

Statements

....

run;

Then when you want this to run highlight those lines and submit.

Of course I may be misunderstanding the problem.

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

DDX — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:42:56 GMT

This is perfect! And now so obvious. Thanks

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

TeamSouthAfrica — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:25:24 GMT

hi i am looking for someone to help me with conbrach alpha on SAS can you help me please. where is it located. i am using 9.4 enterprise. please help

Re: Sas Stop Valve?

ballardw — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:37:09 GMT

Please start new threads instead of tacking on to old unrelated threads.

Cronbach's Alpha can be found with the Alpha option of Proc Corr