SAS beginner

[kumaabi]

The SAS data set mylib.room has five variables (name, sex, age, height, and weight) and 19 observations (9 observations with sex='F' and 10 observations with sex='M').
Libname mylib 'C:\STA575\SASData';
Data work.female(drop=height) work.others(keep=name weight height);
Set mylib.room;
If sex='F' then output work.female;
Output work.others;
Run;

 What is the input data set?
 How many output data sets are being created?
 How many variables are in work.female?
 How many observations are in work.others?

[MarkusWeick]

Hi @kumaabi,

have you run the program? What ist your problem?

Best

Markus

[MarkusWeick]

Hi @kumaabi,

a got offer for a free learning unit to the basics can be found here:

https://support.sas.com/edu/schedules.html?crs=PROG1

Best

Markus

[MarkusWeick]

Hi @kumaabi,

I just saw Tom's advise, which I think is really good: Please help me to Answer the questions below - SAS Support Communities

Best

Markus

[Kurt_Bremser]

Maxim 4.

TRY IT.

[kumaabi]

The SAS data set mylib.room has five variables (name, sex, age, height, and weight) and 19 observations (9 observations with sex='F' and 10 observations with sex='M').
Libname mylib 'C:\STA575\SASData';
Data work.female(drop=height) work.others(keep=name weight height);
Set mylib.room;
If sex='F' then output work.female;
Output work.others;
Run;

Please help me to Answer the questions below
 What is the input data set?
 How many output data sets are being created?
 How many variables are in work.female?
 How many observations are in work.others?

[Tom]

Give us you answers (and why you think they are the right answers) and we can confirm them or explain why they are not right.

Spoiler

If you want to try running the code yourself just change mylib.room to sashelp.class and run it in any SAS session.

[kumaabi]

The reason I asked here because I dont know anything about sas. I have to take it because its a mandatory course in my university. This is an assignment question

[Tom]

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@kumaabi wrote:
The reason I asked here because I dont know anything about sas. I have to take it because its a mandatory course in my university. This is an assignment question

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I assume they assigned you something to read (or watch) so you should know something about SAS by now.

And even you don't you can still just read the code as if it was English and take a wild-a**-guess at some of the questions.  Don't worry about being wrong, we aren't going to grade you.

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@kumaabi wrote:
The reason I asked here because I dont know anything about sas. I have to take it because its a mandatory course in my university. This is an assignment question

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Please do not try lying to us. Since you were able to write the code posted here, you DO have SAS knowledge.

[v307086]

Hi,

What is the input data set? - the input dataset you can see in the set statement i.e.: mylib.room
How many output data sets are being created? - Two output datasets will be created: females and others
How many variables are in work.female? - 4 variables: name,sex, age, weight
How many observations are in work.others? - 19 observations

[Sajid01]

Hello
As you are new to SAS pease this is a good introduction for you https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/054-2011.pdf .

[Kurt_Bremser]

And on top of everything:

DO

NOT

DOUBLE

POST

[JBailey]

Hey, ChatGPT can answer this...