I came across a new web site today that piqued my interest in words and language. It’s called Wordnik. It’s like a dictionary (seemingly American definitions only), but it offers a lot more because it shows various uses of the word found around the i…
NOTE: I’ll be Busy at SAS Global Forum! #sasgf13
I was very pleased to be invited to present a paper at this year’s SAS Global Forum in San Francisco in April/May. To then have my contributed paper accepted too was icing on the cake. I don’t yet know the dates and times where my two papers will be …
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Easy sortable HTML tables in SAS ODS
Today Charlie Huang posted a SAS HTML table sorting demo, but without automation. Here is a fully automated implementation in SAS. The developer does not need to manually edit the HTML, and the user simply clicks any column and it sorts instantly clien…
A neat new trick to trim your macro variables in 9.3
SAS macro variables are a great way to store a calculated value, so you can use it later in your code. They are not just limited to the data step — you can also use macro variables in title statements, axis statements, etc. By default, the macro v…
Make all SAS tables sortable in the output HTML
Most procedures in SAS generate stylish tables in the output HTML files. An option to sort the tables without bothering SAS again will be very handy for people who are familiar with Excel.
The JavaScript libary jQuery has a number of plug-ins. …