Category: SAS

A Fall Day in Montréal

One slightly uncomfortable – yet thankfully short! – plane ride and I’ve landed in Montréal for a whirlwind tour. I’m very grateful and excited to be travelling with Rupinder Dhillon from Toronto as the featured speaker at tomorrow’s MONSUG meeting! R…

Getting SAS/IntrNet Operational on IIS7

IIS7 is a major change in IIS. Don Henderson contacted me and asked if I could help get it working. It really isn’t hard but involves a few steps.How do you get SAS/IntrNet operational.1. Enable CGI Role on Server through the Server Manager.2. Add in y…

Capturing Screenshots on a Mac

Because I always forget! To capture the entire desktop, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop. To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program. To capture a portion of the desktop, […]

Recursion: Biblical Evidences

                    
             To Iterate is Human, to Recurse, Divine. 
      –by L. Peter Deutsch, creator of Ghostscript. (I also love his saying “The best thing about a Boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit”)

I learned this quote from Tony Barr, designer and developer of SAS (the Statistical […]

Is It Random or Repeated?

Last week, a student in my Mixed Models Analysis Using SAS class sent in the following text message during a discussion of crossover designs (sometimes known as ABBA designs, where factors vary within subjects, not ABBA designs where you’re like…

Voting Reminder: SASware Ballot

Contributed by Casey Thompson, Manager, SAS Technical Support

Don’t forget to check out the SASware ballot online! The online format enables SAS to continuously add ballot items throughout the year. These items are based on suggestions that YO…

Changing up SAS Work for the Intelligence Platform

There is a wide array of papers (from SAS, conferences, on blog posts, etc) discussing the need to move WORK (the SAS temporary files) off to other locations.
In the SAS Intelligence Platform it’s the same way, however there are a BUNCH of SAS configu…

Found some SAS Enterprise Guide Custom Task development resources

I just saw an interesting SAS Discussion Forum thread relating to the development of custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 & 4.3. Chris@SAS posted a reply containing a number of links to resources. Looks like a very useful list so I’m filing it away in case I have a need to do any custom […]