Proc FCMP

A long time ago I figured out how to write functions for SAS using SAS/Toolkit. It was not a straightforward process and not very useful. In fact, someone recently asked me about it and I was unable to share much useful info. However, I did find pro…

Searching the Forums for Answers

User discussion forums are a great way to find answers to your problems. I’ve searched forums for help with updating operating systems, fixing the washing machine, and selecting new plumbing fixtures. In all cases, the forums have been helpful a…

Ways to Get Involved in sasCommunity.org

Contributed by Lainie Hoverstad on behalf of the sasCommunity.org Advisory Board

When SAS Global Forum 2009 is over, join the user community online at sasCommunity.org—the collaborative online community for SAS users worldwide.

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Run data mining codes following William Potts

FYI: SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Text Miner Procedures: Reference for SAS 9.1.3, see:
 
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/miner/emtmsas913/listing.html
 
This entry DOES exist in the SAS Support website, but it can’t be found by any search engine or documentation tree view. You’re recommended to download these files immediately due to SAS’s easy-dead hyperlinks.^-^
 
ps.SAS Institute provides no support […]

Slick spline plot in SAS

Here is an example of a slick spline (using penalized b-splines) plot in SAS. The plot is created with SGPLOT procedure. I hope SAS will add such “functions” also to model based procedures such as GLM, MIXED, GENMOD, …

Windows 7

Ok, I am testing out Windows 7 and it seems great…except it didn’t recognize my printer and wouldn’t let me install the driver. It errored out with:Unable to Install Printer. The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer…