During your installation, you can utilize a separate location to store the installation temporary files. The
-datalocation option must be defined in the command line with setup.exe.
The resulting files include:
as well as
Local Settings\Applicatio…
Resolve vs Symget
Symget function enjoys lot more amount of pulicity and usage as compared to the resolve function, though the later one actually is (at least according to me..) more efficient, powerful and more flexible! (Guess am becoming more sentimental th…
SAS Metadata Backup on Windows 2008 R2
I was trying to run a manual SAS Metadata Server backup (OMABAKUP) on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit today. It failed! I run metadata backups many many times so I was sure all the normal prerequisites were in place but this was the first time I had run one on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit […]
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Easy way to UPCASE variable names of SAS dataset
option VALIDVARNAME=UPCASE;
Use trhe above option statement to upcase the variable name of the SAS dataset irrespective of type of variable in the dataset (character or numeric).
The following example shows how the option satte…
Proc Fcmp(2): a subroutine for Binomial-CRR model
Problems: Quote for six-month American style euro currency options on plain vanilla, Max[S-K,0]and 〖Max[S-K,0]〗^0.5. Exchange rate S_0=$1.3721 /euroSix-month continuously compounded inter-bank rates: r=0.4472%,r_f=1.2840%.Assumptions:The exchange r…