One of the sessions I got a lot out of at the SAS Global Forum was Margaret Crevar’s session where she outlined what options existed for tuning SAS on Windows 2008. Some recommendations I noted where: On Windows 2008 64-bit size: 4Gb of RAM per core. 1.5 x physical RAM for page file change default SORTSIZE to […]
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Calculating the number of working days between two dates
It’s a simple task to use SAS to compute the number of weekdays between two dates. You can use the INTCK function with the WEEKDAY interval to come up with that number.
diff = intkc(’WEEKDAY’, start_date, end_date);
If you want to c…
Calculating the number of working days between two dates
It’s a simple task to use SAS to compute the number of weekdays between two dates. You can use the INTCK function with the WEEKDAY interval to come up with that number. diff = intck(’WEEKDAY’, start_date, end_date); If you want to compu…
NOTE: Know Your Customers (Before They Know You)
I’m a fan of BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones’s blog. Just before jetting off to SAS Global Forum in April I noticed a most interesting article from Rory entitled World Stores – searching for retail success. The article talks of the success of …
NOTE: Taking a Risk?
A tweet by Manoj Kulwal (global product manager for SAS Enterprise GRC) a couple of weeks ago drew my attention to a Compliance Week article describing how the US Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) had (for the first time) brought financial penalt…
The Promise of Living
In Memorium Robert D. Jensvold November 13, 1928 to March 10, 2011 During the few weeks when my father was sick, I discovered an instrumental version of Aaron Copland’s “The Tender Land Suite” and fell in love with one particular movement, playing it over and over and over…. I just learned that “The Tender Land” […]
Multidimensional scaling for clustering ZIP codes
Multidimensional scaling maps the distances among multiple objects in a two or more dimensional space. This method is getting hotter in analyzing social network, since many SNS website now offer handy tools to visualize the social connections for the …
SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line
SAS has powerful features for reading data out of text files (such as CSV, TSV, datalines, and various other formats), but while reading text, you may find your data set is missing rows and the log has this non-intuitive error message (well, “not…