The State Fair in North Carolina is just a few miles from SAS headquarters, and therefore it’s virtually impossible for it to slip by without me noticing it. There are two aspects of the fair that usually get lots of news coverage – what’s the latest fair-food, and did we […]
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SAS Enterprise Guide has come a long way since version 1.0 was released in 1999! Are any of you original users that remember the Help characters, Clippy, Peedy or Merlin? I was working as a statistician for another company that year, and I attended a SAS user group meeting where […]
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Living to 100 isn’t as simple as just paying a certain amount of money for your healthcare. But that is an interesting aspect of longevity, so let’s have a look at the data … In my previous blog post, we analyzed how much people from various countries spend on healthcare. […]
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As an instructor for SAS, I receive a wide variety of queries before, during and after delivering my courses. Most frequently, I am asked questions such as: Should I learn SAS programming or a point and click tool instead? I know lots of code, should I go straight to the […]
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Have you seen this error when running a program in SAS Enterprise Guide? ERROR: You cannot open WORK.YOURDATA.DATA for output access with member-level control because WORK.YOURDATA.DATA is in use by you in resource environment IOM ROOT COMP ENV. It has a simple cause: the data set that your program is […]
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With the US Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other health topics in the news lately, I wondered how much people spend on healthcare in various countries. Of course spending varies from person to person, so I decided to take a look at the average per capita spending in each country (it’s […]
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SAS programmers often resort to using the X command to list the contents of file directories and to process the contents of ZIP files (or gz files on UNIX). In centralized SAS environments, the X command is unavailable to most programmers. NOXCMD is the default setting for these environments (disallowing […]
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A friend and I were recently debating how much caffeine is in various drinks. I felt like my hands were tied behind my back, since I had no graphs to show them. Of course, the first thing I did when I got to work was create some caffeine graphs! They turned out […]
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