It's always encouraging to get feedback about my blog articles and/or see an article spark some conversation. Last week's Date Increments (INTNX and INTCK) featured the INTNX function for incrementing (or decrementing) date, time, and datetime values b...
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Did you ever hear of PROC JLAUNCH? No, neither did I until I tried the FCmp Function Editor. And, if you didn't know, the FCmp Function Editor is an interactive tool for exploring and maintaining functions created with PROC FCMP. There are a lot of goo...
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Here's just a brief post about a function I just stumbled across. The PROPCASE function coverts a string to "proper case" wherein the first letter of each word is upper case and all others are lower case. Clearly this is a very useful thing for column ...
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data _null_;      do i=0 to 255;            x=byte(i);            put i= x=;      end;      y=rank('a');      put y=;run;BYTE function results:i=65 -- 90 x=...
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LAG Function (SAS 9.2 Doc)*** Use a third variable to assign the value from the previous record;array one a b c d;array two e f g h; do over one; temp = lag(one); if...
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options pageno=1 nodate ls=80 ps=64;data u1(keep=x); seed = 104; do i = 1 to 5; call ranuni(seed, x); output; end; ...
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This is a special R-only entry.In Example 8.7, we showed the Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test. Today we demonstrate more advanced computational approaches for the test.If you write a function for your own use, it hardly matters what it looks l...
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We can’t stress the importance handling character case correctly. Here are the two functions you need to know and use correctly. In order to convert all characters in a sting to lowercase, use the LOWCASE function. Example: data ds_2; set ds_1; *convert it to lowercase; new_char_var=lowcase(OLD_CHAR_VAR); run; In order to convert all characters in...
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