Have you seen the SAS News app (available from the iTunes App Store)? It looks to be a neat alternative to following SAS blogs and press channels through an RSS reader. In SAS’s own words: “Follow and share the latest news, social feeds, product inform…
NOTE: SAS Available on iPad! Free!!
Have you seen the SAS News app (available from the iTunes App Store)? It looks to be a neat alternative to following SAS blogs and press channels through an RSS reader. In SAS’s own words: “Follow and share the latest news, social feeds, product inform…
Sample Data Sources
As you start to learn the SAS Information Map Studio and SAS Web Report Studio, you may want some sample data to play with or otherwise explore. Here is a list of free sources that I have found that can help as you learn and want to challenge yourself. Simple Data Tables Here are some sources for simple data tables. These are datasets with all of the data contained in one table and do not need to join to anything else. SASHELP This listing of data may be most familiar to BASE SAS users. This library has several ready made data sets (i.e. SHOES, CLASS, and CARS). If you do not see a SASHELP library in your list, then ask your SAS Administrator to add it. SAS Enterprise Guide Data EG 4.3 shipped with some fun ready-made simple datasets: Bullets, Drugs, and TotArrests. [Hmmm …. ] This data was located in this path on my EG 4.3 installation: C:\Program Files\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\4.3\Sample\Data DATA.GOV http://www.data.gov/ has a ton of simple raw data tables on a variety of topics: earthquake activity, income data by county for 2007, and unemployment statistics. It is actually just fun to poke around to see what is available. This site also has links to other […]
Fours Errors in SAS 9.2 Fisher’s Iris Data in SASHELP Library
In the previous post, I just mentioned that Fisher’s Iris Data is embedded officially in SASHELP library in SAS 9.2. Note that even in SAS 9.1.3, you can also find this data with several instances from some demos in user guide (just search "Iris" in "SAS Help and Documentation" accompany with you SAS product), for […]
The Sudoku to GRID analogy
Co-written with Gordon Cox@gtcox76 Gordon’s 7-yr daughter asked him what he learned in class at SAS Campus a few weeks ago. The subject, even for many SAS geeks like us, can be hard to tackle. Gordon was learning all about SAS GRID architecture, impl…
XCMD and SAS 9.3: working together again
It’s been a well-known limitation for a long time. When you connect to a SAS session using SAS Enterprise Guide, shell commands (including X command, SYSTASK, and FILENAME PIPE) are off-limits because the default SAS invocation disables them. It does this by including -NOXCMD as a command-line option. This makes […]