Thank you Los Angeles Basin SAS User Group for listening to my talk on SAS MACRO: Beyond The Basics.The room provided by RAND was excellent. Everything was well organized and the day went without a hitch. The audience was very engaged and had great q…
Glossary of SAS Terms
Q: I would like to have a glossary of technical terms.
A: Almost every book or book series contain a glossary of terms related to product or topic being documented. SAS documentation includes a Base SAS Glossary. This glossary a great place to ge…
Get where condition into the output
The where statement is a powerful and useful tool for subsetting on the fly. But one problem with it is that the output doesn’t show the conditioning. This is a little macro I wrote to correct this problem:%macro where(wherest, titleline);w…
Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part II)
A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post,an interesting message popped up on Twitter from @annmariastat:
Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 mo…
More Advice for a New Programmer
Am I a new programmer? Let me see. I was a new programmer when I wrote my first program in college. I was a new programmer when I wrote my first SAS program during SAS Programming 1 class. And if I were to sit down to write a program today, I’d…
Script to remove the subversion folder from project directory
Many a times we would want to remove the subversion folders which are present in the project directory for various reasons. (Eg: Copy the structure to another drive, zip it and mail it, etc..). The subversion folders are present in every directory (Eg:…