Category: SAS

How to use Gmail to send a message from a SAS program

Three years ago I described how you can use SAS Enterprise Guide to send an e-mail message using Gmail as your e-mail provider. In the article, I mentioned that you can also write SAS programs that send e-mail messages, but at the time you could not reach Gmail using the […]

Analytics 2013 London at a glance

A month ago, nearly 600 of us gathered on the south bank of the Thames in London for the first of this year’s Analytics Conference series. So, in the spirit of data visualisation, I’ve compiled an ‘infographic’ giving a bird’s eye of who came and from …

Everything Still Starts and Ends with Data in SAS Visual Analytics

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SAS Visual Analytics is changing the way data is analyzed and delivered in the SAS world.  The Visual Analytics LASR server brings a new method for handling large volumes of data directly in-memory.  New tools give businesses more power with less effort to prepare data for analysis, explore data, and …

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Good Morning, Hotfix Tool for SAS 9.4

The first news I got from today’s inbox is that SAS Hot Fix Analysis Download and Deployment Tool (SASHFADD) for SAS 9.4 is released today.  Just yesterday I found it was not available.
I did a quick launching and it works fine. Check it out:
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Sync everything up, at least between EG & metadata

From an Enterprise Guide user’s perspective, a SAS library is a library. Whether it was defined in the autoexec or in the metadata or by magic, it is there for them to use with no issues. However, there is a difference as metadata defined libraries do …

Need “All” as a Choice for Your Dynamic Prompt?

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What I like the most about the dynamic prompts available for the stored process and SAS Enterprise Guide is that a lot of the work is done for you.  For instance, some prompts have built-in error checking and a built-in selection for selecting all values.  Without a doubt it’s one of …

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Open Box: SAS 9.4 in Windows 7

That’s a record in my personal SAS software adoption: SAS 9.4 was released at 10 July 2013 and I just got it installed two weeks later! Here my first-day notes with SAS 9.4: 1. SAS Foundation 9.4 can be co-existed with SAS 9.3. If SAS 9.3 was already installed, the default of path of 9.4 […]

List Processing With SAS (2): List Creating II

%range is a genetic list creator. To apply data driven programming technique, we need to fetch metadata from source data dynamically, for example, to get all variables from a input dataset. You can easily make it by 1. PROC SQL, from a SAS dictionary table, or macro variable by SELECT INTO; or 2. Proc Contents; […]