I just discovered by accident a new “feature” in SAS 9.4, one that apparently wasn’t glamorous enough to be mentioned back at SAS Global Forum last spring. Starting with SAS 9.4, by default, PROC REPORT runs in noninteractive mode. In other words, you no longer have to specify the NOWINDOW option in order to avoid […]
Tag: Little SAS Book Series
2013 in review
I am certainly not one to decline when someone offers to write a blog entry for me. Here, courtesy of the stats monkeys at WordPress is the annual report for the AvocetSolutions.com blog: And here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2013. […]
Writing Code in SAS Enterprise Guide
With the Western Users of SAS Software 2013 conference coming soon, I am looking forward to being part of three presentations. One of those presentations is Writing Code in SAS Enterprise Guide This is based on a paper written several years ago for SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1. That paper became obsolete almost immediately. So I’ve […]
Which Little SAS Book?
One of the problems that Lora Delwiche and I face as authors of two books with similar titles (The Little SAS Book and The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide) and multiple editions (five of LSB and three of LSBEG) is explaining how the books are different. The two books are totally different–and complementary. So […]
The Little SAS Book Fifth Edition
Five editions is a lot! If you had told me, back when we wrote the first edition, that some day we would write a fifth; I would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all…it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But those clever folk at […]
The Reviewer Is Always Right
…about something …and it’s up to you to figure out what. At SGF I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion titled “So You Want to Be a SAS Press Author!” The panel was organized by Nancy Brucken, moderated by Michael Raithel and included authors Art Carpenter, Cynthia Zender, and Mike Molter. During […]
Susan’s Macro Mottos
With SAS Global Forum less than two months away, I am busy putting the finishing touches on my papers. One of those papers is SAS Macro Programming for Beginners. Of all the conference papers I have written over the years, this is probably my favorite. Yet oddly, I have only presented this paper once at […]
SAS Data Step Illustrated: Guest Blog by Jiangtang Hu
The following blog is reprinted by permission of the author Jiangtang Hu. Hu is a SAS programmer living in Beijing who writes blogs in both English and Chinese. (Full disclosure: Hu quoted The Little SAS Book, but I had never met him before he wrote this blog.) SAS Data Step’s Built-in Loop: An Illustrated Example […]