Chris Hemedinger’s new book Custom Tasks for SAS® Enterprise Guide® Using Microsoft .NET was recently released. If you have an idea for a really useful additional task you’d like to build for SAS Enterprise Guide, I strongly encou…
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NOTE: Ampersands Again
My recent post on double and triple ampersands in macros ended with some doubt. Laurie and Dave immediately took up the challenge to resolve the doubt. You can see the whole painful saga in the comments of the original post, but I’ve repeated Dave’s…
NOTE: SEUGI Proceedings
Did I miss this? The proceedings of the SAS European User Group International (SEUGI, the European equivalent of SUGI and SGF) are now all online on the SAS Community web site. Papers from 1983 to the last event in 2007 are there.
Most of the pages we…
Tracking tornadoes with SAS
We had some fierce wind storms all across the United States yesterday, which even spawned some tornadoes! It looks like we weathered the storm OK here in Cary (but I still need to run out to the lake and make sure my pontoon/houseboat is still there, …
Getting to Know You: New Text and Content Analytics Community
We know that many of you are active users of the Support Communities on the site and are pleased to tell you there’s a new community in town: Text and Content Analytics. This community is a centralized resource for discussing ideas, asking questions, s…
Tracking progress in your program with SAS Enterprise Guide: another trick
I’ve got a new trick that you can use to track progress in a long-running SAS program, while using SAS Enterprise Guide. I’ve previously written about the SYSECHO statement and how you can use it to update the Task Status window with custom messages. SYSECHO is a “global” statement in […]
An easy way to find variables in common to data sets
Over the holidays I was having a discussion with my cat, Ms. Trixie Lou. A question that often arises during the first programming class is the following: how do I find the variables that are in common to these two or three data sets? As it turns out, …
What do you expect of a data mining software
I just completed the 2013 Rexer Analytics data mining users survey. I make it a point to do my best to complete these surveys as they usually make me stop and think. This year there were two questions that were very relevant. I am just finishing off…