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…
Basic Differences Between Proc MEANS and Proc SUMMARY
Though Proc Means and Proc Summary are 2 different procedures essentially used to compute descriptive statistics of numeric variables, but there are differences between these two. (
1) By default, Proc MEANS produces printed out…
SAS BI Dashboard: Don’t Forget the Timestamp
Author: Tricia Aanderud
If you are getting ready to rollout a new SAS BI dashboard, make sure you have a timestamp or Data Last Refreshed where the users can easily see it. If it’s a real time dashboard (or near real time) then the user wants to know the last time the data …
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