With SAS Global Forum less than two months away, I am busy putting the finishing touches on my papers. One of those papers is SAS Macro Programming for Beginners. Of all the conference papers I have written over the years, this is probably my favorite. Yet oddly, I have only presented this paper once at […]
Create transport file and Read in transport file
*** Create transport file;libname source “/home/kwxxx/requests/xxxdata”;libname tran xport “/home/kwxx/requests/xxxdata/transport/xxxdata.xpt”;proc copy in=source out=tran memtype=data;run;*** Read in transport file;libname library ‘c:\kwxxx’;libna…
Dynamic Static Filters – Turbo boost!
Dynamic filters in Web Report Studio are awesome – no predefining static values and also in sync with the data. But…. they can be a bit on the slow side. Clicking on the ‘Get Values’ button runs a select distinct query which will return the filter list. How long this takes is dependant on a […]
I’m not supposed to be writing this
I’m not supposed to be working on this blog post right now. I’ve stayed late at the office under the pretense of working on “the book.” It’s the book about creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide, and I’ve been working on it for quite a w…
Graphics for univariate data – Pie is delicious but not nutritious
When you have univariate data, that is, a single measure on a variety of units, the most common statistical graphic is a pie chart. But pie charts should not be used. Ever. When there are a lot of units, pie charts are unreadable. When there are on…
SAS 9.2 Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool – Making hotfixes easy peazy!
We have SAS in at a client site doing a SAS 9.2 Grid install at the moment. While having a chat they mentioned that there is a new hotfix management tool available for SAS 9.2, and sure enough there is details on the SAS Support site here (thanks Ron!) What the support says about it […]