A student came with a question about how to snag data from a PDF report for analysis. Once she’d copied things her text file looked like:1 Las Vegas, NV — 53.3 — — 12 Sacramento, CA — 42.3 — — 23 Miami, FL — 41.8 — — 34 Tucson, AZ –…
Drilling Is Not Required
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I wish I could navigate directly to the documentation without descending 3-4 levels in a tree. I’d like to just type RAND and …
Drilling Is Not Required
Find out how to get to your content faster. This comment was recently provided via the feedback link on support.sas.com: I wish I could navigate directly to the documentation without descending 3-4 levels in a tree. I’d like to just type RAND and go di…
Super Important Tip on Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.2 Add-in to MS Office
When upgrading from an existing 4.2 client install of SAS Add-in to MS Office, you are not prompted to enable the Outlook portion of the Add-in. As SAS points out in the KB Post http://support.sas.com/kb/40/272.html, there is a ‘Switcher Utility’ avail…
Wufoo and REST API
Wufoo (http://www.wufoo.com/) is a great service for creating user forms and getting input. Build a form interactively, let people fill it out, and Wufoo collects the results. If you haven’t checked it out before, I highly recommend this great service….
Reading a table from a website into a SAS dataset
Many a times we may want to read a table from the webpages into our datasets. This may be a requirement especially when I would want to analyse the stock market shares and their corresponding trends over the past. This can be done in many ways dep…