… using the new R package sas7bdat.parso. The software company GGASoftware has extended the work of myself and others on the sas7bdat R package by developing a Java library called Parso, which also reads sas7bdat files. They have worked out most of the remaining kinks. For example, the Parso library reads sas7bdat files with compressed […]
To Exit or Not Exit, the SAS Ways
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. –by W. M. Lewis So, which is the exit style you prefer, in the following 3 macros (which are all valid SAS codes): /*#1 if branch*/ %macro tragedy_of_life1(ds); %if %sysfunc(exist(&ds)) %then %do; proc […]
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The Imitation Game @TIGmovie @BletchleyPark
For wholly different reasons, my daughter and I are thrilled to see a date for the premiere of The Imitation Game movie in London and the UK. She’s thrilled because it features Benedict “Sherlock” Cumberbatch; I’m thrilled because it’s a big scree…
Order Matters: A Weird Behavior of SAS ODS Style Options
The codes to push a dataset to Excel (technically XML): ods tagsets.excelxp file=”test.xls”; *#1; ods tagsets.excelxp options( sheet_name=’test 1′); proc print data=sashelp.class noobs; var height / style={tagattr=’format:text’} style(column)={cellwidth=.5 in}; run; *#2; ods tagsets.excelxp options( sheet_name=’test 2′); proc print data=sashelp.class noobs; var height / style(column)={cellwidth=.5 in} style={tagattr=’format:text’} ; run; ods tagsets.excelxp close; […]
SAS Certification As a Tool for Professional Development
If you had told me a year ago that I would write a paper about SAS certification for the Western Users of SAS Software 2014 Educational Forum and Conference, I would have been very surprised! I became a SAS Certified Professional long ago, and that certification expired–long ago! However, in the past six months, both […]