A customer just recently posted this on our Facebook page: “Dear SAS: Thank you for SPANROWS!” That question inspired me to write a quick blog that is not going to refer to Herman Melville or James Joyce in regard to learning SAS! I will retur…
Category: SAS
Making SAS Interactive (Part 1): Using stdin and stdout
Many a times, we may come across a need for having a dynamic programs. Meaning, we may need the user to key in the input and run the code accordingly, based on his input. This can be achieved in SAS by using the automatic file descriptors: stdin and st…
Enterprise Guide Addin’s Development Documentation
Chris posted earlier this month about the documentation that is available on the SAS Support site (http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/guide/customtasks/) which outlines how to create addin’s for Enterprise Guide. We showcased our first Enterprise Guide addin at the SUNZ conference last week, it allows users to kill their own SAS exe’s that have gone rogue on the SAS Server. Ill post […]
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper Done
Well got my paper in on time for my preso, excitedly titled:
“Paper 313-2011 – Migrating SAS® Enterprise Guide® Projects from SAS® 9.1 to SAS® 9.2″
And the presentaton itsself is almost finished.
Yah me!
All eyes (and ears) on SAS Global Forum
Aubrey BarfieldAndy RavennaBefore you take off for SAS Global Forum in Las Vegas, take a trip to our training page to hear Aubrey Barfield interview SAS instructor Andy Ravenna about the event. He’ll talk about his session, Becoming a Better Pro…
Example 8.27: using regular expressions to read data with variable number of words in a field
A more or less anonymous reader commented on our last post, where we were reading data from a file with a varying number of fields. The format of the file was:1 Las Vegas, NV — 53.3 — — 12 Sacramento, CA — 42.3 — — 2The complication in the…
Reducing the OLAP Cube Size in 9.2
In 9.2, OLAP Cubes can be updated incrementally. This is awesome, as you then don’t have to worry about users locking your cube by closing the Web Report Studio window or leaving their EG session running.However, at the same time, this can cause the si…
SAS and Revolution R for GB size data
R surpassed Matlab and SAS on recent Tiobe Programming index for popularity. I agree with this ranking[1], since R could largely replace Matlab and SAS for MB size data, and it is getting hot. The fast growing sectors, finance, biology, bioinformatics …