From an Enterprise Guide user’s perspective, a SAS library is a library. Whether it was defined in the autoexec or in the metadata or by magic, it is there for them to use with no issues. However, there is a difference as metadata defined libraries do …
Need “All” as a Choice for Your Dynamic Prompt?
Author: Tricia Aanderud
What I like the most about the dynamic prompts available for the stored process and SAS Enterprise Guide is that a lot of the work is done for you. For instance, some prompts have built-in error checking and a built-in selection for selecting all values. Without a doubt it’s one of …
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Open Box: SAS 9.4 in Windows 7
That’s a record in my personal SAS software adoption: SAS 9.4 was released at 10 July 2013 and I just got it installed two weeks later! Here my first-day notes with SAS 9.4: 1. SAS Foundation 9.4 can be co-existed with SAS 9.3. If SAS 9.3 was already installed, the default of path of 9.4 […]
List Processing With SAS (2): List Creating II
%range is a genetic list creator. To apply data driven programming technique, we need to fetch metadata from source data dynamically, for example, to get all variables from a input dataset. You can easily make it by 1. PROC SQL, from a SAS dictionary table, or macro variable by SELECT INTO; or 2. Proc Contents; […]
Finding SAS Depot Release Numbers
Checking the detailed release number(s) for SAS® software in a depot is one of those things I do rarely enough that I have to look it up each time I need to do it. I know it’s in the depot somewhere, but I keep forgetting exactly where. This…
New U.S. sample data available in SAS 9.4
In previous versions of SAS, if you wanted to experiment with creating U.S. maps in Proc GMAP, there wasn’t any good sample data available. Unless you had your own data available, you probably ended up using the maps.us x/y points as your DATA= … w…