April 1, 2013 – Although the capabilities of the R system for data analytics have been expanding with impressive speed, it has heretofore been missing important fundamental methods. A new function works with the popular plyr package to provide these missing … Continue reading →
Baseball’s loss is your gain: The ODS Graphics course is here!
It’s been quite a while since my face has graced the SAS Training Post, so some of you may have been wondering: Did Mike retire? Was he traded to another company for a blogger to be named later? Did he leave to pursue his lifelong dream of play…
Data about each month (SAS)
A SAS code to generate information about each month such as the number of days in the month, week days, hours, work hours, etc. using intck and intnx function. It’s also a good example of using a DATA step to generate a data set without an input data …
NOTE: DS2 Final, Final Comments
I got as lot of feedback about the DS2 articles I recently wrote. I should add a few more summarising comments:
I mentioned that DS2 doesn’t currently support MERGE. Chris Hemedinger commented that the ability to use SQL in your SET statement means th…
Poor man’s HPQLIM?
Tobit model is a type of censored regression and is one of the most important regression models you will encounter in business. Amemiya 1984 classified Tobit models into 5 categories and interested reader can refer to SAS online doc for details. In SAS…
Yet Another Undocumented Feature (new in SAS 9.3)
Today just caught an undocumented SAS feature. I ran the following SAS codes to delete a dataset(in Windows 7 with SAS 9.3): data a; b=1; run; proc datasets noprint; delete a; run; quit; and the dataset was deleted as I expected: 32 proc datasets noprint; 33 delete a; 34 run; NOTE: Deleting WORK.A (memtype=DATA). 35 […]