Suppose you have an old jalopy that’s perfectly reliable. Your jalopy gets you where you wanna go: no frills; no drama. Do you trade your old wheels in for a racecar that accelerates like crazy and corners like it’s on rails? Or stick with what’s old…
Tag: sas programming
How to send an email from SAS to members of a distribution list
In your organization, are you prevented from using the email alias of a distribution list (e.g. groupname@comp.domain.com), and would therefore like to extract the list recipients into a flat file to loop through/use the SAS Enterprise Miner functions,…
A neat new trick to trim your macro variables in 9.3
SAS macro variables are a great way to store a calculated value, so you can use it later in your code. They are not just limited to the data step — you can also use macro variables in title statements, axis statements, etc. By default, the macro v…
My favorite SAS tips and tools from 2012
Many of my blogging colleagues are taking this week to reflect on their top posts in 2012. Some are using the visitor statistics to rank the posts, but as Andy Ratcliffe points out, that gives short-shrift to the late-season articles. This year, I’m going to use this space to recap […]
Top 10 blogs of 2012
We decided to take a look back at our blogs in 2012 and see what piqued the interest of our readers. We had a little bit of everything from tricks to advice on all things SAS. Here’s the list of the Top 10 Blogs from 2012. Enjoy reading them again [….
3 gifts to magically transform your data
‘Tis the season to be gifting! So what could be better than gifting your fellow SAS user or yourself with three gifts to celebrate the holiday season? As 2012 comes to an end, we think it’s a great idea to be thinking of ringing in the New Year w…
Using SAS to access data stored on Dropbox
I used “Dropbox” in the title for this post, but these techniques can be used for other cloud-based file sharing services, such as GitHub and Google Drive. Using PROC HTTP, you can easily access any “cloud-based” file as long as you have a public link to reach it. I’m a […]
It’s war… Stat Wars!
There’s a new video series launching in the SAS Education department unlike anything that’s ever been done before. It’s called Stat Wars. Here’s how it works… two SAS instructors go head-to-head and battle it out over a statistics challenge…