SAS certification exams at regional user group meetings It’s almost fall (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere), and that means it’s time for regional user group meetings. And while these meetings are all about mingling with SAS users fr…
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Enterprise Guide 4.3.1 and 9.3 Stored Processes
Chris mentions in his FAQ post on 9.3 and Enterprise Guide that the new stored processes and other new metadata can not leverage all of the functionality in the new 9.3 release. EG is nice to remind us of that fact when we open the SAS Folders view w…
We’re now on SAS-X!
SAS-X (and its cousin, R-Bloggers) is a massively useful resource for learning new tricks with your language of choice, keeping track of news, and generally getting to see cool things people are doing with data software. Which is why I’m pleased to say that Confounded by Confounding posts with the ‘SAS’ category tag will now […]
A macro design pattern by PROC FCMP
We all heard horrible stories that someone tried to piece together a bunch of nice functioning macros for a big macro, and ended up with a messy and undebuggable system. Part of reasons can be about encapsulation: not all SAS programmers have the good…
A macro design pattern by PROC FCMP
We all heard horrible stories that someone tried to piece together a bunch of nice functioning macros for a big macro, and ended up with a failed and undebuggable system. Part of reasons can be about encapsulation: not all SAS programmers have the goo…
A macro design pattern by PROC FCMP
We all heard horrible stories that someone tried to piece together a bunch of nice functioning macros for a big macro, and ended up with a messy and undebuggable system. Part of reasons can be about encapsulation: not all SAS programmers have the good…
Programmatically download monthly economic indicators
This SAS code programmatically downloads monthly economic indicators from FRED, and merges multiple time series into a single data set for convenient analysis. FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is an excellent resource from the Federal Reserve Bank …
Accessing BI web applications from Windows 7
According to the SAS Documentation http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v92m3/browsers.html Windows 7 machines should use Internet Explorer 8. Unfortunately Microsoft will no longer allow installations of IE 8 on Windows 7 machines. http…