As you might have heard, sasCommunity.org — a wiki-based web site that has served as a user-sourced SAS repository for over a decade — is winding down. This was a difficult decision taken by the volunteer advisory board that runs the site. However, the decision acknowledges a new reality: SAS […]
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I was recently reading the Wikipedia page about the U.S. presidents. There was a table with a lot of interesting data, but I thought it would be much easier to get a handle on the information if there was also a timeline graph. So, of course, I set out…
I’m a big fan of the Import Data task in SAS Enterprise Guide, especially for its support of text-based files (CSV, tab delimited, fixed width, and more). There’s no faster method for generating SAS code that reads your data exactly the way you need it. I use the tool so […]
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Include the GROUPORDER=ASCENDING option in the VBARPARM statements. For example:vbarparm category=subject response=&var / group=&group datalabel=&byvar dataskin=pressed datalabelattrs=(size=6 weight=bold…
Donald Trump is pretty spry and energetic for an old guy – he’s currently 71 years old, and seems to have more energy than I do (and I’m about 20 years his junior). But is he the oldest US president? Well, as with many questions … it depends. Follow …
Some people might think it’s an urban legend that SAS gives its employees free M&M’s. Well, I’m here to tell you it’s true! Every Wednesday at the Cary headquarters, a bucket of M&M’s shows up in each of the break rooms. I’m only half-kidding i…