Just to set the record straight, I’m a programmer who loves to write code. While SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) does make reporting easier, this time it’s not the displays that caught my eye. EG won this round hands down for ease of use to summariz…
SAS Addin for Microsoft Office – Requires WRS to be installed
I was doing some testing of the new Addin to Microsoft Office (AMO) 4.3/M3 a week or two ago and specifically the addin for Outlook. When trying to open a SAS Report (.srx) in Outlook we got this error. Looks like the SAS AMO 4.3 plugin relies on the Web Report Studio web services that […]
Labeling variables by a macro in SAS
To rename the variables of a dataset in SAS is a daily routine. SAS or the programmer s would give an arbitrary name for any variable at the initial stage of data integration. Those names have to be modified afterward. Weisui [Ref.1] developed a macro …
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Back-Ups, and The Last Word #sasgf11
My trip to SAS Global Forum 2011 in Las Vegas was valuable to me for mahy reasons. I learned a lot of information about a) SAS in general, and b) SAS 9.3 (to be released later this year). I echo many of the sentiments of SAS’s Mike Kalt in this we…
NOTE: Inspiring Analytics
I was very pleased to meet SAS’s Chris Hemedinger at this year’s SAS Global Forum. Needless to say, he was espousing the virtues of Enterprise Guide when I found him!
If you’re a regular NOTE: reader you’ll know that I’m a fan of his blog. I was jolly…
NOTE: SAS Professionals 2011, July 12th to 14th (yes, July, not April)
My thanks to Bernie for pointing out that I meant July 12th to 14th as the dates for SAS Professionals Convention 2011 in yesterday’s post (now corrected). The rest of you are clearly not paying attention!!
It’s doubly embarrassing because I…