‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the world … dot-matrix printers were humming as Santa’s naughty/nice list was unfurled… Can you imagine what it must have been like years ago when Santa had to maintain his naughty/nice list by hand,…
How to make better data-based decisions
Many companies are stressing the use of analytics and have a desire to make data-based decisions. But what kind of training should one take to enhance their abilities to meet this broad objective? Certainly some advanced training on statistical techniq…
Testing Direct Access to SAS Metadata Bound Libraries and Tables
A little while ago, as part of the work on our recent Metacoda Plug-ins 3.0 R2 release, I used SAS® 9.3 M2 to set up a metadata bound library by following the useful instructions in the Setting Up a Metadata-Bound Library section of the SAS® …
NOTE: Calling Stored Processes from SAS Code (PROC STP)
Stored Processes. Brilliant. An excellent (and easy) means of packaging your SAS code and making it available in parameter-driven form through Enterprise Guide, Microsoft Office applications (through the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office), Information Ma…
Getting SAS Software running on Arch Linux 64-bit
Recently, I’ve been looking to switch from Ubuntu to an alternative distro as the primary Linux platform for our Metacoda development/testing environments, where we also run SAS® software. I’ve run quite a few distros in my time includ…
Code: Keeping Code in the Trunk
Last week while searching for a code snippet through several folders of information, I realized that the code was still on my old computer … ugh! One of my weekend projects was to organize my code examples somewhere – I’m going to …