One of the big benefits of the SAS Viya platform is how approachable it is for programmers of other languages. You don’t have to learn SAS in order to become productive quickly. We’ve seen a lot of interest from people who code in Python, maybe because that language has become […]
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Thanks to a new open source project from SAS, Python coders can now bring the power of SAS into their Python scripts. The project is SASPy, and it’s available on the SAS Software GitHub. It works with SAS 9.4 and higher, and requires Python 3.x. I spoke with Jared Dean […]
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At SAS, we’ve published more repositories on GitHub as a way to share our open source projects and examples. These “repos” (that’s Git lingo) are created and maintained by experts in R&D, professional services (consulting), and SAS training. Some recent examples include: sas_kernel, which provides Jupyter notebook support for SAS. […]
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TL; DR Free training from SAS: “SAS Programming for R Users.” The schedule of Live Web offerings is here. If you prefer self-study, the complete course materials are on the SAS Software GitHub space and you can practice with the free SAS University Edition software. The details: how R programmers […]
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We’ve just celebrated Earth Day, but I’m here to talk about Jupyter — and the SAS open source project that opens the door for more learning. With this new project on the github.com/sassoftware page, SAS contributes new support for running SAS from within Jupyter Notebooks — a popular browser-based environment […]
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OpenCDISC, the first open source CDISC validator, is already in the toolbox of FDA reviewers (CDER/CBER, see CDISC Standards in the Regulatory Submission Process, 26 January 2012, P.33). The key features in OpenCDISC is a dichotomy of validation rules (XML based) and application logic. Currently OpenCDISC Validator (Version 1.2.1) officially supports the four following CDISC […]
(click for a bigger picture)As a longtime SAS user, one obstacle for me in using R professionally has been figuring out a process for saving and testing code across several work sessions and integrating code composition and execution. There are a coup…
0. A gentle Introduction to Time Series Analysis, may serve as fast learning materials:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section4/pmc4.htm
1. An open source book(with data and code), A First Course on Time Series Analysis: examples with SAS, by Prof. Michael Falk, is available in:
http://statistik.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/timeseries/
2. A SAS User book, Forecasting Examples for Business and Economics Using SAS […]