SAS Enterprise Guide has about 150 options that you can customize in the Tools->Options window. With each release, the development team adds a few more options that have been asked for by customers, and they rarely decommission any existing optio…
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Behind the scenes: importing Excel files using SAS Enterprise Guide
I hope that the following statement is not too controversial…but here it goes: Microsoft Excel is not a database system.
That is, I know that people do use it as a database, but it’s not an application that supports the rigor and discipline of…
Calculating the number of working days between two dates
It’s a simple task to use SAS to compute the number of weekdays between two dates. You can use the INTCK function with the WEEKDAY interval to come up with that number.
diff = intkc(’WEEKDAY’, start_date, end_date);
If you want to c…
Calculating the number of working days between two dates
It’s a simple task to use SAS to compute the number of weekdays between two dates. You can use the INTCK function with the WEEKDAY interval to come up with that number. diff = intck(’WEEKDAY’, start_date, end_date); If you want to compu…
Using SAS Enterprise Guide to run programs in batch
SAS Enterprise Guide is best known as an interactive interface to SAS, but did you know that you can use it to run batch-style programs as well?
SAS Enterprise Guide has always offered an automation object model, which allows you to use scripting…
Using SAS Enterprise Guide to run programs in batch
SAS Enterprise Guide is best known as an interactive interface to SAS, but did you know that you can use it to run batch-style programs as well? SAS Enterprise Guide has always offered an automation object model, which allows you to use scripting langu…
Undocumented features: there’s a reason they are not documented
Many SAS users love “undocumented features” within SAS software that they have found or heard about. Sometimes they can be really useful, and the fact that they are undocumented adds to the mystique. Some users have written entire conference pap…
Using ODS Graphics Designer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3
The ODS Graphics Designer allows you to design and build your own statistical graphs in SAS, without having to learn how to program in the new graph template language (GTL). The ODS Graphics Designer is a rich user interface that allows you to des…