Create a .sas template

`makSasTemplate` will generate a .sas file with a header containing any project information provided in the function call.

makeSasTemplate(
  sas.dir = getwd(),
  sas.name = NULL,
  proj.name = NULL,
  start.date = format(Sys.Date(), "%B %d, %Y"),
  version = "1",
  client = NULL,
  client.dept = NULL,
  main.statistician = NULL,
  stats.collab = NULL,
  sas.purpose = NULL,
  sas.notes = NULL
)

Arguments

sas.dir

A character string specifying the file path where the template will be stored. Defaults to getwd().

sas.name

NULL or a character string specifying the name of the .sas file. If NULL, the file will be named p[proj.name]_sas[currentdate]_v[version] or sas[currentdate].

proj.name

NULL or a character string providing the name of the project to be included in the template name and/or header.

start.date

NULL or a character string providing the date to be included in the template header. Defaults to today's date.

version

NULL or a character string providing the project version to be included in the template name and/or header. Defaults to "1".

client

NULL or a character string providing the name(s) of client(s) to be included in the template header.

client.dept

NULL or a character string providing the affiliation of the client(s) to be included in the template header.

main.statistician

NULL or a character string providing the name of the primary statistician. This will be used in the template header.

stats.collab

NULL or a character string providing additional collaborators to be included as authors in the template header.

sas.purpose

NULL or a character string providing the purpose for the generated template to be included in the template header.

sas.notes

NULL or a character string providing additional notes to be included in the template header.

Details

You can append code and comments under the generated header by either creating a .basefile.sas file in your /home/<USERNAME> directory or by modifying the templates/basefile.sas file contained in the package library.

To find the location of your HOME directory, run `Sys.getenv("HOME")`.

To find the location of the included template file, run `system.file("templates", package = "startProject")`.

Author

Rocio Lopez, Rocio.LopezMoscoso@cuanschutz.edu

Examples

if (FALSE) makeSasTemplate(sas.name = "sasTemplate")