Hey SAS-C!
Just FYI.
Bart
SAS Packages Framework, version 20221121 is here!
Available as usual at: https://github.com/yabwon/SAS_PACKAGES
New feature of "Cherry picking" added to the SAS Packages Framework.
Sometimes a package offers so many features that the number may be "overwhelming".
In such case only some of them may be selected for loading. Such process
is called a "cherry picking". The feature is provided by the %loadPackage() macro
which uses a cherryPick= parameter (see description below).
For example, execution of the following code:
%loadPackage(BasePlus, cherryPick=rainCloudPlot getVars)
results with loading only the rainCloudPlot and the getVars elements.
If several object types (e.g., a macro and a format) share the same name
all will be loaded.
What is the trade-off?
- Since the cherry picking selects only a part of the package the
SYSloadedPackages macrovariable is not updated with the package name.
- Dependencies i.e., packages from the
ReqPackages list, are not loaded automatically, so they have to be loaded manually.
- The
%unloadPackage() macro executed on such partially loaded package may sometimes issue some irrelevant warnings.
Changes in %loadPackage() macro:
- New
cherryPick= parameter added to the macro.
As a value a space separated list of selected elements
of the package to be loaded into the SAS session is expected.
Default value of an asterisk (*) means: "load all elements of the package".
Empty list is equivalent to default.
- Documentation updated.
Changes in %generatePackage() macro:
- Code adjustment for the cherry picking feature.
- Minor additional code refactoring.
- The
%ICEloadPackage() macro does not support cherry picking.
The following packages were regenerated with the latest version of the framework:
- BasePlus [1.17.2]
- DFA [0.5.2]
- dynMacroArray [0.2.2]
- GSM [0.20.2]
- macroArray [1.0.2]
- SQLinDS [2.2.2]
