Posts Tagged ‘ Base SAS ’

Since SAS 9.3, ODS Graphics was moved into Base SAS, which means the SAS/Graph license is not needed anymore to access ODS Graphics facilities. It’s definitely nice, but from customers’ point of view, it is not critical necessary: since the “minimum set of SAS system” in most SAS sessions includes the Base SAS, SAS/Stat...
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Use SAS Enterprise Guide to quickly understand a new data set
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SAS® platform administrators can get quite familiar with the SAS NOXCMD option, usually when someone asks why their programs that used to work (in a different SAS version or execution environment) are now failing. Perhaps the programs ran ok with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 using a SAS 9.1.3 server but now fail with SAS...
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I have trouble waking up early everyday. And the days when i forget to set alarm in my mobile, I might wake up two days later!!I've overcome this problem after i discovered this the sound function in SAS. This function produces a beep sound for the spe...
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Many a times, we may come across a need for having a dynamic programs. Meaning, we may need the user to key in the input and run the code accordingly, based on his input. This can be achieved in SAS by using the automatic file descriptors: stdin and st...
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In my last blog post, I discussed how to use SAS options to send unattended email using an SMTP server. In this segment, I’ll tackle creating “pretty” email (using HTML) and sending out emails with attachments. First, I produced a basic repo...
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On this festive season, you can send cool animated images to your loved ones - a la SAS way!!! Here is how you do it.Add a filename email with the required to/cc/bcc id's.Include the HTML img tag and give the following source path as shown be...
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Symget function enjoys lot more amount of pulicity and usage as compared to the resolve function, though the later one actually is (at least according to me..) more efficient, powerful and more flexible! (Guess am becoming more sentimental th...
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