Tag: New in SAS 9.4

Jedi SAS Tricks: Writing to Text Files from DS2

A reader posed a question in the comments to an earlier Jedi SAS Trick, asking how to write the results of a DS2 DATA _NULL_ program to a text file. It’s an interesting question, as DS2 currently has no text file handling statements or capabilities. Take, for example, this traditional […]

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SAS 9.4 has a new way to send interactive graphs in email!

SAS 9.4 allows you to create html5 output with your graph inline (as part of the html), providing a great way to email your SAS/Graph output! Previously, if you used ods html and dev=png to create graphs, you had to deal with two files — a png file (…

New U.S. sample data available in SAS 9.4

In previous versions of SAS, if you wanted to experiment with creating U.S. maps in Proc GMAP, there wasn’t any good sample data available.  Unless you had your own data available, you probably ended up using the maps.us x/y points as your DATA= … w…

Send your SAS graphs directly to Powerpoint!

To say that I’m excited about the SAS 9.4 release is an understatement! For example, did you know that in SAS 9.4, you can write SAS/Graph output directly to a Powerpoint slide?!?  This is definitely an item that was on my “wish list,” and will no dou…

Smooth sailing (and smooth lines!) in SAS 9.4 gif graphs

SAS 9.3 already has smooth (anti-aliased) lines in SAS/GRAPH device=png output, and in SAS 9.4 you will also get smooth lines in your device=gif output (and gif animations)!  Woo-hoo!!! Here are a couple of simple examples to demonstrate: The firs…