Dynamic filters in Web Report Studio are awesome – no predefining static values and also in sync with the data. But…. they can be a bit on the slow side. Clicking on the ‘Get Values’ button runs a select distinct query which will return the filter list. How long this takes is dependant on a […]
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I’m not supposed to be writing this
I’m not supposed to be working on this blog post right now. I’ve stayed late at the office under the pretense of working on “the book.” It’s the book about creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide, and I’ve been working on it for quite a w…
Graphics for univariate data – Pie is delicious but not nutritious
When you have univariate data, that is, a single measure on a variety of units, the most common statistical graphic is a pie chart. But pie charts should not be used. Ever. When there are a lot of units, pie charts are unreadable. When there are on…
SAS 9.2 Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool – Making hotfixes easy peazy!
We have SAS in at a client site doing a SAS 9.2 Grid install at the moment. While having a chat they mentioned that there is a new hotfix management tool available for SAS 9.2, and sure enough there is details on the SAS Support site here (thanks Ron!) What the support says about it […]
How to kill a Unix SAS job
First, enter the following command to see your SAS job that are currently running:       ps -ef|grep kwxxxx And you’ll see the output like this:       kwxxxx 21506 35726 0 11:07:45 pts/15 0:00 vi zzz.sas       kwx…
Example 8.24: MplusAutomation and Mplus
In recent entries (here, here, and here), we’ve been fitting a series of latent class models using SAS and R. One of the most commonly used and powerful software package for latent class model estimation is Mplus. This commercial software includes su…
Welcome to our future website!
We are currently busy creating our first SAS BI book. The working title ‘Creating Content using SAS Business Intelligence Solutions’ is scheduled to arrive on shelves in early 2012. Stay posted as we provide an ongoing log of our efforts. As an added bonus for those that check back in, we plan to include recently found tips & tricks on this site! Thanks! Angela Hall & Tricia Aanderud
Jedi SAS Tricks: Email from the Front – Part 1
I’m responsible for a SAS program that runs nightly in batch on a Linux server here at SAS. I am also a road warrior, and routine status checking via a remote connection is often tricky, and sometimes impossible due to unstable hotel intern…