A lot of times when I am working with interactive SAS, I find myself staring at a SAS date that has not been formatted. The quickest way to see the actual date was to go to my “scratch” enhanced editor and write a quick data _null_ to put it to the log…
Tag: macro
Jedi SAS Tricks: Building a Name Suffix variable list
If you’ve taken one of my SAS classes you may recall “Mark’s 3 rules of programming”, the first of which is “Lazy programmers are GOOD programmers.” One of the things I love about best about SAS programming is the plethora of functions an…
Logistic function macro for SAS
Used in logistic regression, neural networks, and countless other applications, the logistic function is simple to understand yet can be quirky to calculate in SAS because of how SAS treats extreme values. First, let’s consider the value -1000: R…
My Collection of SAS Macro Repositories
Then I just find that the most effective and safest way to synchronize bookmarks across machines is making them Google searchable, i.e, putting them online. Followings are my personal collections of SAS macro Repositories (I will keep it update according to new sites reached and your inputs). Most of them are rich, well documented and […]
NOTE: Macro Options
Last week I wrote about the availability of the IN operator in macro through the use of the MINOPERATOR system option. I mentioned that SAS v9.0/9.1 had introduced a number of useful features to the SAS macro capability. Here are some options that you …
NOTE: Macro Options
Last week I wrote about the availability of the IN operator in macro through the use of the MINOPERATOR system option. I mentioned that SAS v9.0/9.1 had introduced a number of useful features to the SAS macro capability. Here are some options that you …
NOTE: Macro Options
Last week I wrote about the availability of the IN operator in macro through the use of the MINOPERATOR system option. I mentioned that SAS v9.0/9.1 had introduced a number of useful features to the SAS macro capability. Here are some options that you …
NOTE: There’s No In In Macro (or is there?!)
I love the SAS macro language and the power it gives you. Being able to control the creation of a SAS program, or its execution path, is immensely valuable. The SAS macro language contains the vast majority of the functional and logic capabilities of t…