We all heard horrible stories that someone tried to piece together a bunch of nice functioning macros for a big macro, and ended up with a messy and undebuggable system. Part of reasons can be about encapsulation: not all SAS programmers have the good…
A macro design pattern by PROC FCMP
We all heard horrible stories that someone tried to piece together a bunch of nice functioning macros for a big macro, and ended up with a messy and undebuggable system. Part of reasons can be about encapsulation: not all SAS programmers have the good…
A macro design pattern by PROC FCMP
We all heard horrible stories that someone tried to piece together a bunch of nice functioning macros for a big macro, and ended up with a failed and undebuggable system. Part of reasons can be about encapsulation: not all SAS programmers have the goo…
Programmatically download monthly economic indicators
This SAS code programmatically downloads monthly economic indicators from FRED, and merges multiple time series into a single data set for convenient analysis. FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is an excellent resource from the Federal Reserve Bank …
Accessing BI web applications from Windows 7
According to the SAS Documentation http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v92m3/browsers.html Windows 7 machines should use Internet Explorer 8. Unfortunately Microsoft will no longer allow installations of IE 8 on Windows 7 machines. http…
I am a 20% SAS Nerd!
Kirk Paul Lafler drafted a checking list for identifying a SAS nerd (or geek, in its positive ways) in one of his intriguing papers:
You Could be a SAS® Nerd If . . .
Here I’m glad to find that I am roughly a 20% SAS nerd (12 matched in all 57 lists):
8. You blog SAS-related […]