More questions answered:
Q: I’m looking for a simple install guide for 9.2
A: I couldn’t answer the question about why SAS 9.2 has different installation documentation, so I enlisted the help of Fred Perry who is a major contributor of content to …
Answering the questions from the feedback forms
We have recently added feedback forms and short surveys on some pages on support.sas.com. We don’t ask for your e-mail address or require you to log in to the site. That means that all of the comments are anonymous. We think the ease of commenti…
Tweak PROC FASTCLUS for 1-Nearest Neighbor / Closest Match
In most table lookup tasks, we are doing EXACT matching. However, sometimes we are looking for closest match in the lookup table. By ‘closest’, we mean smallest Eucleadian distance:
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Typically we have to manually code the search function …
SAS: “The query requires remerging summary statistics back with the original data”
Coming from a background writing SQL code directly for “real” RDBMS (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and SQLite), I was initially confused when SAS would give me the following ‘note’ for a simple summary PROC SQL query: 429 proc sq…
Get your graph questions answered
We launched a new discussion forum at the end of August. The SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics forum provides a place to discuss the visual representation of data, to share your questions, suggestions, experiences, and pains regarding graphics. Join the…
A beautiful morning in Vermont
I’m in Burlington, VT for NESUG 09. I’ve never been here, so I got up early this morning to go for a short run to clear my head for a day on the demo floor and to get a look around. I found my way to Battery Park and thought the views were nice….