JSON is the new XML. The number of SAS users who need to access JSON data has skyrocketed, thanks mainly to the proliferation of REST-based APIs and web services. Because JSON is structured data in text format, we’ve been able to offer simple parsing techniques that use DATA step and […]
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About two years ago we published a quick and easy guide to setting up your own RStudio server in the cloud using the Docker service and Digital Ocean. The process is incredibly easy– about the only cumbersome part is retyping a random password. Toda…
When I was a kid, I always looked forward to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 song countdown at the end of the year. Did I listen to check whether my favorite songs had made the list, or to critique how well the people making the list had done in picking the ‘right’ […]
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In my earlier post about WHERE and IF statements, I announced that the DATA step debugger has finally arrived in SAS Enterprise Guide. (I admit that I might have buried the lead in that post.) Let’s use this post to talk about the new debugger and how it works. First, […]
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Has anyone ever broken up with you, and left you thinking “Wow, I didn’t see that coming!” In hindsight, maybe you could have seen it coming. At least from a statistical perspective. Let’s dive into this topic with some lighthearted discussion, and plot some Facebook data… When it comes to […]
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In the DATA step, the WHERE statement and the IF statement (a.k.a. the “subsetting IF”) have similar functions. In many scenarios, they produce identical results. But new SAS programmers are taught early on that these two statements work very differently, and in important ways. To understand the differences, it helps […]
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I often wonder how many people see the word “University” in the title “SAS University Edition” and think you have to be a university student to download this software. Please help me spread the word: Anyone can download the University Edition (as long as you’re using it for learning purposes) […]
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Suppose you are using SAS Studio (perhaps with the University Edition) and the statistical task you need to perform is not a supported option or feature in SAS. I know that sounds almost impossible because the statistical tasks in SAS Studio are so awesome. But, just in case you need […]
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