One of the exciting new features in SAS 9.3 (well for me anyway) is the ability to replace or modify the logging configuration on-the-fly for a running server without needing to restart it. Previously in SAS 9.2 you could dynamically change the levels …
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Learn How to Code in 2012
Do you know someone who could benefit from learning how to code? Are your parents looking for a new hobby in retirement? Are your kids looking for wider career options? Send them along to http://www.codeyear.com/ and encourage them to sign-up for the …
Calculated values in PROC REPORT Compute Blocks
Dear Miss SAS Answers, In PROC REPORT can I use one calculated (computed) variable in the calculation of another computed variable? In the example below, I’m trying to use the value of the Bonus column to calculate the Total column: compu…
SAS Global Forum: Is Google Analytics and SAS BI a good subject?
I’m really excited, Angela and I were invited to speak at the SAS Global Forum in Orlando in April. We were asked to talk about the SAS BI package and we have narrowed down our topic to SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, and, if time allows, the SAS Information Delivery Portal. The point of the presentation is learning about the SAS BI clients – getting the data has proved to be a journey of it’s own. Step 1: Need some interesting data … The hardest part of preparing a teaching presentation is find data that presents some mystery and allows you to tell a story that resonates. Right now the leading topic is along the lines of “How do you let people know you have a book out there? How do you build excitement?” For us, building a companion website (this blog) that gave the users an idea of the book content was our answer. Plus the website would be a continuation of the book information for the users. The next question is – “How do you know it’s working?” Using the data that Google Analytics collects for this blog, I have been researching what kind of […]
Reset Your SAS Profile Password and Update Your Information
Contributed by Marci Russell, Project Manager, SAS The SAS Profile application is very important to the business of knowing our customers and providing you the information you need about SAS. Today, you create a Profile for actions like subscribing to …
Do loop vs. vectorization in SAS/IML
Vectorization is an important skill for many matrix languages. From Rick Wiklin’s book about SAS/IML and his recent cheat sheet, I found a few new vector-wise functions since SAS 9.22. To compare the computation efficiency between the traditional d…
SAS EG: 3 Quick Tips for Working with Data
In 2002, I started out using BASE SAS 8 and it wasn’t until nearly two years later that I learned how to use SAS Enterprise Guide. I quickly grew to love it. It made it so much easier to build charts and just keep my data organized. Today I just want to share some quick tips that I use SAS Enterprise Guide to review my data quickly. Tip #1 Look at the Dataset Some people don’t realize they can view the dataset in the metadata – just like you can in BASE SAS. All you have to do it double-click and dataset is added to the Project Tree. You can then double-click the dataset and view it. [Not too long I discussed datasets and metadata libraries.] Tip #2: View Unique Values for a Variable You can use PROC FREQ to see all values for a variable but that involves typing. Sometimes I’m in the middle of a some code so I don’t want to add another program or maybe I’m just too lazy. Select Filter and Sort on your dataset. In the Filter tab, add the variable you want to view – for instance I needed to know the company […]
Example 9.18: Constructing the fastest relay team via enumeration
In competitive swimming, the medley relay is a team event in which four different swimmers each swim one of the four strokes: freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly. In general, every swimmer might be able swim any given stroke. How can w…