Perhaps you are like me and have gotten top-ten list fatigue from the typical press that SAS gets. The pervasive coverage leaves the impression that we all arrive on campus at 10:00AM, grab a massage before heading to the natatorium for a few laps, tak…
SAS in the News
What do social networking, SAS, and Saddam Hussein’s chauffeur have in common? The article, “Untangling the Social Web,” in the newest issue of Economist magazine has given SAS some nice free PR. I wonder if I’m an “influencer?” I wonder how long it will take for this posting to show up in SAS Institute’s own […]
Import DBF in SAS
There are several ways to import DBF files in SAS. First, there is PROC DBF: filename dbfin ’employee.dbf’; proc dbf db5=dbfin out=employee; run; But in my environment (SAS 9.1.3 Windows XP; and SAS 9.2 on Windows Server 2008 with Enterprise Guide 4.2 …
Example 8.4: Including subsetting conditions in output
A number of analyses perform operations on subsets. Making it clear what observations have been excluded or included is helpful to include in the output.SASThe where statement (section A.6.3) is a powerful and useful tool for subsetting on the fly. (…
NOTE: Marking Time with Enterprise Guide
In my recent review of a client’s SAS/Base jobs’ suitability for EG visual coding, I wasn’t surprised to come across some jobs that created new tables each month where the table names included the date. The table names were of the form MASTER.SALES_201…
Project Management, Churchill-Style
Having recently marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II’s Battle of Britain, my interest was piqued by a book sub-titled “Project Lessons from Winston Churchill and Battle of Britain”. The idea of viewing World War II as a project surp…