Category: SAS

SAS 9.2 Mid Tier Support for Windows 2008 R2

To date I had avoided Windows 2008 R2 because, until recently, it was not supported for the SAS 9.2 Mid Tier. I had read in SAS Installation Note 36616: SAS® 9.1.3 Service Pack 4 and SAS® 9.2 support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 that support for 2008 R2 was coming with the release of the […]

Rain, Sunshine, Sleet and Fog: Just Another Day in Vancouver

Vancouver strikes me as a bit of an abnormality on the west coast, at least in one sense. With its frantic, hurry-up, always-changing weather patterns it reminds me in some ways of the pace of life here on the east coast which is so markedly different…

Jedi SAS Tricks: Custom Bookmarks

I was building a nice little PDF report the other day.  I love the way ODS PDF replicates the SAS Results window navigation structure as PDF bookmarks, but… I’d much rather write the text for the bookmarks myself.  So, I decided to &qu…

The Penultimate Road Trip

This past week was the busiest of the fall 2010 Canadian SAS User Group season… and it certainly didn’t disappoint in any way! To be honest, I hardly know where to begin. There are so many tales to tell and people to recognize it makes my head spin…

Why Can’t SAS Read My CSV file?

Many SAS users receive data in the form of CSV (Comma Separated Value) files, and need to convert them to SAS data sets. A typical record in a CSV file might look like this:Jeter,Derek,1995,,234,”22,600,000”

Note the following about the reco…

SAS usability gets peer review

Like a car loan officer hot on the heels of usability car salesmen, and
in commemoration of World Usability Day,
I’d like to list some of the papers and posters which my peers have presented at recent usability conferences.
This will give Peer Rev…

SAS usability gets peer review

Like a car loan officer hot on the heels of usability car salesmen, and in commemoration of World Usability Day, I’d like to list some of the papers and posters which my peers have presented at recent usability conferences. This will give Peer Revue re…

Keeping the Analytical Trenches Fresh

You know the old joke,

Q. How can you tell an extroverted statistician from an introverted statistician?

A. The extrovert looks at your shoes when they talk.

Well, the statisticians that I work with every day are a pretty lively bunch, so th…