Calculate a SAS Observation Length

Well, I couldn’t find this documented anywhere (someone correct me if I missed it) but the question for the day was how to calculate the SAS Observation Length. After some investigation, here is how it is done (pseudocode):obsLength = Sum of all of you…

New Forum Focuses on SAS Web Report Studio

We launched another forum on Friday afternoon! The Web Report Studio forum was created to establish a community of users that can share information, questions, and ideas about SAS Web Report Studio. While watching the discussions in our existing…

Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Miner

Q: One site visitor added this comment to his feedback form:
I am trying to find the answer to a simple question about getting started with Enterprise Miner 6.1.A: Visit the product page for SAS Enterprise Miner.

What will you find on the product…

SAS DIM function – Counting the elements in an array

The DIM function returns the number of literal elements in an array. It functions against multi-dimensional arrays as well as one-dimensional arrays. 1-dimensional array example DIM(array_name) Multi-dimensional array examples DIM(m_array) -> returns the number of elements in the first dimension of the array DIM5(m_array) -> returns the number of elements in the 5th dimension of […]

SAS Job Searching

Where do you search for SAS jobs? I have been lucky during the downturn and stayed employed, but I know there are a lot of others out there who haven’t been as fortunate. When I did look for a job I generally used dice.com, but thatwas mainly out of …

Advances in Searching

UPDATE:
The advanced search functionality is now production on support.sas.com. It is available at support.sas.com/search. You can also access it by selecting the search button when the search field is empty. Links to advanced search will start…