SAS 9.4 Language Reference : Concepts, Sixth Edition

Provides conceptual information for the Base SAS language. Major topics include SAS keywords and naming conventions, SAS variables and expressions, error processing and debugging, SAS data sets and files, creating and customizing output, DATA step concepts and DATA step processing, reading raw data, and creating and managing SAS libraries.

SAS 9.4 has the following changes and enhancements:

• in the fourth maintenance release of SAS 9.4, new TrueType fonts were added.
• in the third maintenance release of SAS 9.4, Avenir Next TrueType fonts were added
• new LOCKDOWN statement and system option in the first maintenance release of SAS 9.4
• in the second maintenance release of SAS 9.4, enhancements to the LOCKDOWN feature
• in the second maintenance release of SAS 9.4, font slanting and emboldening support for universal printer fonts
• universal printing enhancements to support additional graphic output types and animation for GIF and SVG files
• buffer size specification support for SAS DATA step views
• new multilingual and Asian monolingual TrueType fonts
• support for extended attributes on SAS data sets and variables
• enhanced functionality to extend the observation count for 32-bit SAS data files
• enhancements to SAS data file protection
• enhanced functionality for VIEWTABLE column headings