Category: SAS

Text output in friendly format

Format output for cut-and-paste from the output window
This is less of a trick and more of a tip, I guess.  The SAS output window is displayed in SAS Monotype font.  This is a hassle when you need to cut-and-paste into, say, a word document, …

What do Simon Cowell, Elvis Presley and SAS have in common?

Larry LaRusso is the Editor of SAS Training Report. His editorial letter from the May issue was so good, I thought I would share it with you. Enjoy!

If you had to choose the Simon Cowell of the mid-1900s, you’d be hard-pressed to pick someone m…

The browser spectrum is getting harder to support

Raise your hand if you have an iPad or iPad envy? All of you with your hands up know what I mean when I say “but hey, we want to develop using the cool new stuff.”

We try very hard to use standards for the SAS Customer Support site that will mak…

Hello, and Welcome

The SAS Training Post is born, and introductions are in order. I’m Catherine Truxillo, but everyone except my mom calls me Cat. I have been a statistician in the Education division at SAS since 2000. I’ve been blogging a little longer than that, a…

Book review: SAS and R by Ken Kleinman and Nicholas J. Horton

There are many books that teach you to use SAS or that teach you to use R. There is at least one book that teaches R to people who know SAS or SPSS (R for SAS and SPSS users by Robert Muenchen, and it’s very good). Most of those try to teach you …

Random Sample Selection

Last week my manager asked me to randomly pick 10%observations from a large data set and then create a listing so that the Data management programmers can QC the data. I want to share some thoughts here … how easy and simple to do random sampling. …

It’s the added value that counts

Welcome to SAS Training Post, the official blog of SAS Training & Certification! My name is Michele Reister and I am the social media manager for SAS Education. This blog will be a channel to provide you with value-add educational content t…