Milestone achieved: I’ve completed the final chapter of Creating Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide using Microsoft .NET and turned it over to SAS Press for editing and production. It’s scheduled to be available in early 2013. I committed to writing this book nearly 5 years ago. I’ll engage in […]
Two SAS AF Utilities: LogFilter and Format Viewer
Nice to have (and easy to follow, both tested in Windows 7 with SAS 9.3M1 while they were both written in lower version of SAS):
1. LogFilter: a SAS log checker by rtsl
http://www.ratcliffe.co.uk/rest_logfilt.htm
2. A SAS format viewer by Frank Poppe
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Open question in 1937…short SAS program today
John D. Cook posted a story about Hardy, Ramanujan, and Euler and discusses a conjecture in number theory from 1937. Cook says, Euler discovered 653,518,657 = 158^4 + 59^4 = 134^4 + 133^4 and that this was the smallest [integer] known to be the sum of two fourth powers in […]
R for SAS, SPSS, Stata Users Workshop Redesigned
My workshop R for SAS, SPSS and Stata Users has been popular over the years, but it’s time for an overhaul. A common request has been to simplify it, so I have moved data management to a separate 4-hour workshop, … Continue reading →
Updated SAS Business Intelligence training path now available
We have recently made a few changes to our training paths on http://support.sas.com/training. I thought that it might be helpful to explain the updated SAS Business Intelligence path. To help make it easier to find the training you need, the training p…
NOTE: Conditional Processing, Beyond the Basics With Enterprise Guide
In my preceding Enterprise Guide (EG) “Beyond the Basics” article I described Prompts, their uses, and their benefits. Another valuable feature of EG is conditional Processing. This gives you the ability to take different paths through your project b…