SAS Tips & Tricks Anthony Fina Statistics Outreach Center The University of Iowa Spring 2013 Files to be used with this document: MOCK_PUBLIC.txt 92 observations from public schools – MOCK_PRIVATE.txt– 8 observations from private schools SAS Environment Docking the Explorer window if you accidently close it: Select from the menu and click Explorer. View Then select from the menu and click Docked. Window You may have to select on the tab. Large Icons View Saving your settings: Tools Options Preferences… On the tab check settings on exit.’ This isn’t going to work on CITRIX or General ‘Save on UI computers that do not allow you to save settings. Displaying results in Output window (default prior to SAS 9.3): Tools Options Preferences… On the tab check listing.’ Selecting this will display results the Results ‘Create traditional way in the Output window. Automatically clear the Results window: Place at the beginning of your program. This display manager command tells SAS to remove stored output in the Results Navigator Window. HTML output is unaffected but still should be deleted using command below.
SAS Tips & Tricks Anthony Fina Statistics Outreach Center The University of Iowa Spring 2013 Files to be used with this document: MOCK_PUBLIC.txt – 92 observations from public schools MOCK_PRIVATE.txt– 8 observations from private schools SAS Environment Docking the Explorer window if you accidently close it: Select View from the menu and click Explorer. Then select Window from the menu and click Docked. You may have to select Large Icons on the View tab. Saving your settings: Tools Options Preferences… On the General tab check ‘Save settings on exit.’ This isn’t going to work on CITRIX or on UI computers that do not allow you to save settings. Displaying results in Output window (default prior to SAS 9.3): Tools Options Preferences… On the Results tab check ‘Create listing.’ Selecting this will display results the traditional way in the Output window. Automatically clear the Results window: Place at the beginning of your program. This display manager command tells SAS to remove stored output in the Results Navigator Window. HTML output is unaffected but still should be deleted using command below.
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