Had a weird one this week. SAS are installing a Grid environment at a customer site. We had already installed the SAS 9.2 clients on a dedicated Citrix box, so the dev team could test the new SAS 9.2 clients / functionality. We wanted to add a few clients, including the Enterprise Miner 6.2 client […]
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2 Popular SAS Topics, 2 Awesome SAS Instructors, a Pinnacle SAS Event
Marty HultgrenMichelle BucheckerSAS Global Forum creates a big buzz in the SAS user community, so in order to find out what the fuss is about, I decided to chat with a couple of our instructors who would be going to Las Vegas. In addition to teach…
Using ODS Graphics Designer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3
The ODS Graphics Designer allows you to design and build your own statistical graphs in SAS, without having to learn how to program in the new graph template language (GTL). The ODS Graphics Designer is a rich user interface that allows you to des…
Can SAS/GRAPH Get You a Gig in Vegas?
A few months ago I wrote a blog entry titled “SAS/GRAPH “SG” Procedures–Not Just for Statisticians!” It was so well received that I was invited to open for Celine Dion at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas! Well, not really, but I was invited (along …
Dual user accounts – making sure mr cockup doesn’t come to visit (credit to blackadder)
We always recommend to customers that they create two user ids for the SAS Administrators. One that is granted standard user rights(or developer user rights) and one that is granted administrator rights. (remember nobody should use sasadm should they!) The reason is that it stops the administrator users from accidentally doing something they didn’t mean to when […]
First Three Chapters Submitted to SAS Press
Tricia and I spent the gorgeous weekend inside working on our computers. But we are SO excited to have the first three chapters into SAS Press for the initial review phase. This was submitted a full 2 months before our contracted due date – so at…
Plug for RStudio: powerful, free, and easy to use interactive development environment for R
(click for a bigger picture)As a longtime SAS user, one obstacle for me in using R professionally has been figuring out a process for saving and testing code across several work sessions and integrating code composition and execution. There are a coup…
Example 8.28: should we buy snowstorm insurance?
It’s been a long winter so far in New England, with many a snow storm. In this entry, we consider a simulation to complement the analytic solution for a probability problem concerning snow. Consider a company that buys a policy to insure its revenue …