We are a month out from Analytics 2013 in London! I am already getting excited about the trip and am starting my list of what to pack (and where to go and what foods to eat and what pubs to visit — the list goes on!). As host of the […]
Category: SAS
Export and download any file from SAS Enterprise Guide
Last week I alluded to some very useful applications of the Copy Files task. This is one of them. Using the SAS programming language, you can manipulate data and create files of just about any size, shape, and format: Excel, PDF, CSV, RTF, and more. A challenge for SAS Enterprise […]
Special steps for installing the custom tasks that you download
Recent versions of SAS Enterprise Guide (version 5.1 and later) use Microsoft .NET 4.0, which enforces additional security requirements before running custom task DLLs that you download from the Web, including those that you download from support.sas.com. Because these task DLLs are downloaded from the (big and scary) Internet, the […]
An FTP-style task in SAS Enterprise Guide: user-driven fixes
A few months ago I released the Copy Files task for use with SAS Enterprise Guide. The task allows you to transfer any files between your PC and a SAS Workspace session, much like an FTP process. It doesn’t rely on FTP though; it uses a combination of SAS code, […]
Visualizing NFL fans on a map, based on Facebook ‘like’ data
Are you an NFL fan, or curious about analyzing social media data? — Well, in either case, this blog’s for you! I recently read a fascinating Facebook article that included a U.S. county map showing which NFL (U.S. football) team had the most ‘likes’ i…
Proc SQL and the power of select into
I have referenced this paper many times. Great help in using the power of proc sql with macro variables. Great for building lists of values and dynamic code.
http://www.nesug.org/Proceedings/nesug97/coders/eddlesto.pdf
Syntax:
SELECT object-item …
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Highlights from SAS Global Forum 2013
I’ve already written about one highlight of SAS Global Forum 2013: the SAS Web Editor. Here are some more features that I think deserve mention. Please note that I make no claims about the comprehensiveness or completeness of this list. SAS 9.4 and Enterprise Guide 6.1 are scheduled for release in June and bring some […]
SAS on the Mac is Back
SAS Global Forum ended two weeks ago. I thought by now someone would have written about SAS on the Mac and saved me the trouble, but since I don’t see much discussion of this in the blogosphere, here are my belated two cents. If you have been using SAS as long as I have, then […]