Category: SAS

Search Changes Available May 18

The time has come. The launch sequence has started. At 11 pm EST, the process will begin to update the search results page. The new results page looks different and offers some really cool new features:
A drillable navigation on the search resu…

Search Changes Available May 18

The time has come. The launch sequence has started. At 11 pm EST, the process will begin to update the search results page. The new results page looks different and offers some really cool new features: A drillable navigation on the search results page…

SAS StoredProcessService events

If you encounter the following error when using SAS’s StoredProcessService events:event invocation for COM objects requires event to be attributed with DispIdAttributeRoll your project back from .NET 4.0 to .NET 3.5. This may only be applicable to the …

NOTE: Inadequate Mends

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In the last couple of weeks I’ve been confronted with a lot of macro code. I love SAS Macro language (is there a cure for this?) but it drives me nuts when the name of the macro is not appended to the respective %MEND statement.

Jedi SAS Tricks: Macro Q functions

James Bond: “Give me the old fashioned target range, Quartermaster. “ Q: “Yes, well, it’s called the future, so get used to it.” In James Bond movies, it’s Q’s job to disguise wickedly effective technology as seemingly innocuous everyday object…

Jedi SAS Tricks: Macro Q functions

James Bond: “Give me the old fashioned target range, Quartermaster. “
Q: “Yes, well, it’s called the future, so get used to it.”
In James Bond movies, it’s Q’s job to disguise wickedly effective technology as seemingly innocuous everyday …

Example 8.38: WriteXLS to create spreadsheets

In our last entry, we described reading Excel files. In this entry, we do the opposite: write native Excel files.RIn R, the WriteXLS package provides this functionality. It uses perl to do the heavy lifting, and the main complication is to install th…

CDISC Express: A Glance

This weekend I tested an application that can automatically transform clinical data to CDISC SDTM compliant datasets(3.1.1 and 3.1.2), CDISC Express of Clinovo. According to its license statements, you can download it for free and for personal use only.
The core of CDISC Express is an Excel configuration file called Mapping File which defines all the […]