When you open a file for output, the SAS System writes to the file in the first directory listed in the FILENAME statement, even if a file by the same name exists in a later directory.

To determine the type of action SAS will take when it tries to open a SAS data file that is damaged, set the data set option or system option DLDMGACTION=. That is, when a data file is detected as ...

Revolution Analytics, competing with analytic software giants SAS Institute and IBM with a corporate version of the open source R software, has issued a cocky challenge - except for the forfeit ...