I beg to differ, the language does matter. It breaks or makes your career. Choosing to learn is easy if time is abundant but not so as I think time is a luxury. Here's a good anecdote. https://www.r-bloggers.com/on-programming-languages-why-my-dad-went-from-programming-to-driving-a-bus/ ... View more

I think I have the answer. With proc tabulate, I'm not able to get the output in sas dataset format as it's not a sas table. Is it possible to export the report into Excel? The table must be as it is. ... View more

This is pretty much the solution I'm currently using though I didn't use proc format as to avoid using options. But thanks! ... View more

Since SUGI is outdated, is there a SUGI equivalent which is modern like? Something similars to Jupyter/ipython Notebook maybe? SUGI should have been more reproducible in my opinion. ... View more

Not interested in the language war as it's pretty useless without context though it's arguable that R and Python or open source ecosystem hasgained exponential tractions among the younger intelligent computer savvy generations. Facebook Uber and AirBnb use these tools for data science. Though it's definitely a challenge to replace SAS as it's tied to legacy systems which many companies still use. But this doesn't answer the question. Career wise, it does feel like SAS will turn out to be like COBOL or Fortran. I think it's only reasonable to gauge whether investing time and effort to master SAS is a good thing or not. ... View more

Hi ArtC, thank you for this. It helps to know that there's a more simpler way. Is it possible to get the output of the proc tabulate as it is in a sas dataset format? When I add the out= option, the table has a different structure though. ... View more