In the past I’ve bemoaned the lack of (free) third-party Enterprise Guide custom tasks (add-ins). Nothing much has changed in that respect, but SAS’s Chris Hemedinger recently released another. On this occasion it’s for shrinking character variables to…
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World Statistics in Real Time
As SAS practitioners we deal with numbers every day, right? And, in the business intelligence systems that we help to build, we capture what’s going-on within our company plus what’s going-on outside with customers, competitors, and the world around us…
Data Step Hooks
Here is something to keep in mind when using the END= option on the set statement: There is no guarantee you will hit the end of file.Simple example to illustrate:data test; do i = 1 to 10; output; end;run;data _null_; set test(where=(i > 10)…
Example 8.32: The HistData package, sunflower plots, and getting data from R into SAS
This entry is mainly a promotion of the fascinating HistData R package. The package, compiled by the psychologist, statistician, and graphics innovator Michael Friendly, contains a number of small data sets of historical interest. These include data …
Undocumented features: there’s a reason they are not documented
Many SAS users love “undocumented features” within SAS software that they have found or heard about. Sometimes they can be really useful, and the fact that they are undocumented adds to the mystique. Some users have written entire conference pap…
The Bus Factor
What is your project’s “Bus Factor”? If you don’t know, or you don’t know what the Bus Factor is, you’d better read this article! If you do know your Bus Factor and it’s too low, read this article for some advice on how to increase it.
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NOTE: The PROPCASE Function
Here’s just a brief post about a function I just stumbled across. The PROPCASE function coverts a string to “proper case” wherein the first letter of each word is upper case and all others are lower case. Clearly this is a very useful thing for column …
Mapping an MS Access Database to SAS Library
This post is for people, like myself, who assume things are harder than they usually are. Worked on an analysis yesterday where I needed to map an Access database to a SAS library so I could use the tables in … Continue reading →