sas-flow was created with a few goals in mind:
- Organization: We need a better way to organize SAS code than putting everything in one monolithic file, or a bunch of separate, unconnected files.
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Collaboration: It should be easy to share SAS code within a team of collaborators. Getting started with a
sas-flowproject you have never seen before should be easy and self-explanatory. - Reproducibility: It should be easy to re-run an analysis and reliably get the same results (no "where did that number come from?").
- Tooling: SAS programmers should have state-of-the-art tools, like a real text editor (e.g. Sublime Text) for editing code and version control (git) for storing it.
- Good defaults: Sensible SAS defaults should be applied to every project, like setting the working directory appropriately and producing HTML output.
- Mac support: Mac users running SAS in a virtual machine should be first-class citizens and should be able to write code and view output in OS X.
To this end, sas-flow is a project template along with some well-documented guidelines. Together, these create a streamlined SAS workflow that will save time and prevent gray hairs.
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sas-flow was created with ♥ by Max Masnick.