Although I’ve only been with SAS for a little more than two years, I’ve made many SAS friends and I’m beginning to feel a part of the SAS user family. But as the editor of the SAS Tech Report, I really wanted to validate some of my assumptio…
Discovering the Power of ODS ExcelXP Tagsets
The ODS ExcelXP tagset is pretty powerful stuff. Hidding columns, changing the print layout to landscape, updating the spreadsheet names, defining the default column width and row height, etc – it’s all available using options within the ExcelXP setup….
Make SAS much faster with data set compression
R is fast at processing data sets, but it is limited by memory (physical RAM plus swap). SAS processes much larger data sets, but it is slow because it keeps the data sets on the hard drive. Although computer processors have become faster and memory la…
Making Sense of Twitter with SAS
Last year, Richard Foley and Zack Marshall offered up the idea of calling Twitter from SAS right here in this blog. It was a really popular post. When I saw SAS and Twitter–how to harness SAS to grab data from Twitter in 2 easy steps by John M…
How a SAS Training Course is Made – Part 1
Editor’s Note: Meet Rick Cornell, SAS Training Course Development Manager. In a multi-part series, Rick will tell us about how a SAS training course is born. In this first installment, learn where a course comes from, what new courses are in …
Did you know … you can add comments to your SAS books?
I just learned today that you can add comments to your saved copies of the SAS 9.2 documentation. How cool is that! I’m not sure how I missed this news; I don’t want you to miss it too.
Starting with SAS 9.2, the PDF versions of SAS documentatio…