As an instructor for SAS, I receive a wide variety of queries before, during and after delivering my courses. Most frequently, I am asked questions such as: Should I learn SAS programming or a point and click tool instead? I know lots of code, should I go straight to the […]
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Have you seen this error when running a program in SAS Enterprise Guide? ERROR: You cannot open WORK.YOURDATA.DATA for output access with member-level control because WORK.YOURDATA.DATA is in use by you in resource environment IOM ROOT COMP ENV. It has a simple cause: the data set that your program is […]
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With the US Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other health topics in the news lately, I wondered how much people spend on healthcare in various countries. Of course spending varies from person to person, so I decided to take a look at the average per capita spending in each country (it’s […]
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SAS programmers often resort to using the X command to list the contents of file directories and to process the contents of ZIP files (or gz files on UNIX). In centralized SAS environments, the X command is unavailable to most programmers. NOXCMD is the default setting for these environments (disallowing […]
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A friend and I were recently debating how much caffeine is in various drinks. I felt like my hands were tied behind my back, since I had no graphs to show them. Of course, the first thing I did when I got to work was create some caffeine graphs! They turned out […]
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Today, the need to take an analytical approach to business challenges no longer only applies to traditional, data-driven functions of a business, like IT, but is becoming more and more relevant to every part of an organization, including the marketing function. Employers tasked with staffing modern marketing teams are facing […]
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