SAS power users (and actually, power users of any application) like to customize their environment for maximum productivity. Long-time SAS users remember the KEYS window in SAS display manager, which allows you to assign SAS commands to “hot keys” in your SAS session. These users will invest many hours to […]
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If you spend a lot of time in SAS Enterprise Guide (as I do), you probably get to know its features pretty well. But we don’t always take the time to explore as we should, so there might be a few golden nuggets of editor knowledge that have escaped you […]
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There is a new member of The Little SAS Book family: The Little SAS Enterprise Guide Book. This book is for people who use SAS Enterprise Guide as their interface. EG is a point-and-click interface for SAS, but it’s great for programmers too. And this book includes a new chapter covering the wonderful features for […]
When mentioning to friends that I’m going to Orlando for SAS Global Forum 2107, they asked if I would be taking my kids. Clearly my friends have not attended a SAS Global Forum before as there have been years where I never even left the hotel! My kids would NOT enjoy it… but, […]
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Colors are the subject of many romantic poems and songs, but there isn’t much romance to be found in their hexadecimal values. With apologies to Van Morrison: …Skipping and a jumping In the misty morning fog with Our hearts a thumpin’ and you My cx662F14 eyed girl When it comes […]
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In my earlier post about WHERE and IF statements, I announced that the DATA step debugger has finally arrived in SAS Enterprise Guide. (I admit that I might have buried the lead in that post.) Let’s use this post to talk about the new debugger and how it works. First, […]
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In the DATA step, the WHERE statement and the IF statement (a.k.a. the “subsetting IF”) have similar functions. In many scenarios, they produce identical results. But new SAS programmers are taught early on that these two statements work very differently, and in important ways. To understand the differences, it helps […]
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I’ve supplied dozens of custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide, but the Copy Files task is easily the most popular. The Copy Files task allows you to capture “file transfer” steps inside your process flow, so that you can automate any file upload and download operations between your PC and […]
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