The scatterplot is one of the most ubiquitous, and useful graphics. It’s also very basic. One of its shortcomings is that it can hide important aspects of the marginal distributions of the two variables. To address this weakness, you can add a histo…
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NOTE: SYSTASK Is Great, If You’re Allowed To Use It! (XCMD)
In my previous posting I featured the SYSTASK statement as a great means of executing operating system commands in parallel. Statements such as SYSTASK and CALL SYSTEM allow any operating system command to be executed and so they can be dangerous …
NOTE: SYSTASK Is Great, If You’re Allowed To Use It! (XCMD)
In my previous posting I featured the SYSTASK statement as a great means of executing operating system commands in parallel. Statements such as SYSTASK and CALL SYSTEM allow any operating system command to be executed and so they can be dangerous …
NOTE: With SYSTASK, Even Men Can Multi-Task!
I’ve been doing a lot of file manipulation recently (hence my observations on INFILE’s FILEVAR). I’ve become a great fan of SYSTASK for executing operating system commands. The key element to SYSTASK’s capabilities is that it can execute commands …
NOTE: With SYSTASK, Even Men Can Multi-Task!
I’ve been doing a lot of file manipulation recently (hence my observations on INFILE’s FILEVAR). I’ve become a great fan of SYSTASK for executing operating system commands. The key element to SYSTASK’s capabilities is that it can execute commands …
One Week Down
A few things I learned during my first few days: Learning the data (aka Medical Billing Terminology) is going to be the toughest challenge. The one-week SQL crash course was a very good idea. Not having access to the TAB key makes code styling a pain. (SAS on Unix hints?) I really need reading glasses. […]
Desktop Files for Launching SAS Apps on Ubuntu
Whilst I often use the command line on Linux, it’s also nice to have icons in the menus to start SAS® applications like SAS Management Console and SAS Display Manager. These days I mostly use GNOME Do as an application launcher (its a bit like Quicksilver for Mac OS X). Naturally I like to be […]
NOXCMD: NO eXternal CoMmanDs!
SAS® platform administrators can get quite familiar with the SAS NOXCMD option, usually when someone asks why their programs that used to work (in a different SAS version or execution environment) are now failing. Perhaps the programs ran ok with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 using a SAS 9.1.3 server but now fail with SAS Enterprise […]