A few months ago I wrote a blog entry titled “SAS/GRAPH “SG” Procedures–Not Just for Statisticians!” It was so well received that I was invited to open for Celine Dion at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas! Well, not really, but I was invited (along …
Dual user accounts – making sure mr cockup doesn’t come to visit (credit to blackadder)
We always recommend to customers that they create two user ids for the SAS Administrators. One that is granted standard user rights(or developer user rights) and one that is granted administrator rights. (remember nobody should use sasadm should they!) The reason is that it stops the administrator users from accidentally doing something they didn’t mean to when […]
First Three Chapters Submitted to SAS Press
Tricia and I spent the gorgeous weekend inside working on our computers. But we are SO excited to have the first three chapters into SAS Press for the initial review phase. This was submitted a full 2 months before our contracted due date – so at…
Plug for RStudio: powerful, free, and easy to use interactive development environment for R
(click for a bigger picture)As a longtime SAS user, one obstacle for me in using R professionally has been figuring out a process for saving and testing code across several work sessions and integrating code composition and execution. There are a coup…
Example 8.28: should we buy snowstorm insurance?
It’s been a long winter so far in New England, with many a snow storm. In this entry, we consider a simulation to complement the analytic solution for a probability problem concerning snow. Consider a company that buys a policy to insure its revenue …
What’s so great about SPANROWS?
A customer just recently posted this on our Facebook page: “Dear SAS: Thank you for SPANROWS!” That question inspired me to write a quick blog that is not going to refer to Herman Melville or James Joyce in regard to learning SAS! I will retur…