On 26 Feb 2009 at 23:47, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> 2009/2/26 Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu>:
> > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program
> > in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US Agency for
> > Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and reporting for
> > hospital outcomes at http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/software.htm .
> > The PSSASP3.SAS program is a prime example. Look at how you do a vector
> > product in the SAS macro language to evaluate predictions from a logistic
> > regression model. I estimate that using R would easily cut the programming
> > time of this set of programs by a factor of 4.
>
> Plenty of examples ripe for sending to www.thedailywtf.com there. Like this:
>
> IF &N. = 1 THEN SUB_N = 1;
> IF &N. = 3 THEN SUB_N = 2;
> IF &N. = 4 THEN SUB_N = 3;
> IF &N. = 6 THEN SUB_N = 4;
> IF &N. = 7 THEN SUB_N = 5;
> IF &N. = 8 THEN SUB_N = 6;
> IF &N. = 9 THEN SUB_N = 7;
> IF &N. = 10 THEN SUB_N = 8;
> IF &N. = 11 THEN SUB_N = 9;
> IF &N. = 12 THEN SUB_N = 10;
> IF &N. = 13 THEN SUB_N = 11;
> IF &N. = 14 THEN SUB_N = 12;
> IF &N. = 15 THEN SUB_N = 13;
> IF &N. = 17 THEN SUB_N = 14;
> IF &N. = 18 THEN SUB_N = 15;
> IF &N. = 19 THEN SUB_N = 16;
>
> Of course it's possible to write code like that in any language, it
> just looks worse when it's in ALL CAPS and written in a style that
> looks like the 1980s and onward never happened. The question is
> whether it's possible to write this better in SAS. Most of us on this
> list could write it in R in a better way.
Oh, it's definitely possible to write better SAS code than that. This should
do the trick:
Sub_n = input(scan("1 . 2 3 . 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 . 14 15 16", &N, "
"), 2.);
among various other ways.
But it remains true that certain operations in SAS will be quite inefficient.
---JRG
>
> Barry
>
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