Dear Web Report Studio Users,
Recently, the SAS Web Report Studio (WRS) design team has been re-evaluating the mapping features and functions offered to our customers in WRS. In order to ensure that we are meeting our customer’s mapping needs, we w…
You asked for it: the Autoexec process flow
AUTOEXEC.SAS wasn’t enough for you. Yes, it’s a sure-fire way to run SAS statements (such as LIBNAME assignments or macro definitions) whenever you start your SAS session, but you found it has limitations when used in configurations with lots of …
New Sysinternals Process Explorer
Im a great fan of the System Internals process explorer as a great way of getting a better handle on what is happening on a windows server, compared to the standard task manager. Looks like they released a new version in Nov 2010 which you can downlaod from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 There is also a suite […]
Upcoming SAS Talks session for SAS programmers
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting another SAS Talks session on January 27th, 2010 (this month!).
This talk will focus on the cool stuff in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3, especially for the SAS programmer. Here’s some of what you’ll le…
The "do over" syntax for arrays
This is another useful not-a-trick.
No longer to be found in the documentation is the “do over” syntax, which can simplify code and keep datasets narrower. The syntax works like this:
data …;array arrayname x y z var1 – var3; do over arra…
Discrimanant Analysis, Priors, and Fairy-Selection
A student in my multivariate class last month asked a question about prior probability specifications in discriminant function analysis:
What if I don’t know what the probabilities are in my population? Is it best to just use the default in PROC D…