proc catalog catalog=library.formats;        delete yn.format dnk.formatc;quit;*** yn is numeric format, dnk is character format;
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SAS Enterprise Guide – Why Experienced Programmers Should Use It
Chris Hemedinger, author of The SAS Dummy blog and member of the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, and Stacey Syphus, SAS Enterprise Guide curriculum development manager, recently took some time to discuss the upcoming SAS Enterprise Guide 4….
Learning SAS without access to the software at work or school
As you know, I use this blog space to answer some of the questions that are submitted in our feedback forms and surveys. There are many questions for which I have no answer. But, I’m a long-time SAS employee and that has its advantages. One of …
How to get the details of formats from the format libraries:
If you are like me wanted to get the details of formats stored in the format library, here are two easy ways ….Proc catalog or Proc format
Proc Catalog: Proc catalog will give us the details about name and type (numeric or character) of formats
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Two webinars, two M2010 keynote speakers, free learning
I know that many of you will be traveling to Las Vegas in a couple of months to attend the annual Data Mining Conference. But, for those of you who won’t be attending, or for those who would love a sneak-peek beforehand, I’d like to share wit…
Predict 3G users for telecom by using SAS Enterprise Miner
Situation: For a telecommunication company, there are a training dataset of 18,000 customers and a scoring dataset of 2,000 customers.Task:Find potential 3G users from the existent 2G users to increase ARPU and MARPUAction: Trained models by decision …
A letter to my data
Dear Data,
You are immense. Too big for me to create summary reports that are useful, perform basic statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions and I can forget just looking at you directly.
I am going for help – to Las Vegas, in October…
Macros for Standard Date/Time Processing
SAS Macro to process date/time