Tomorrow I will head off to San Diego for the annual Western Users of SAS Software conference. If you are going, please look for me. At the conference, I will present a class and a hands-on workshop. Half-day Class: Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide Wednesday November 3, 8:30-11:30 AM There is a charge for this […]
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NOTE: Multiple KPIs in HTML
One of the most popular posts of all time on NOTE: is PROC GKPI Does Dashboards. I was recently alerted to some interesting further information by a tweet from @Technolero (Fred Janssen). In the tweet, Fred said that SAS Sample 41421 describe…
NOTE: The SAS Experts Are In Town!
If you live or work near London or Manchester then you may be interested to know that SAS are offering a free half-day training session called the SAS Experts Roadshow and it’ll be in Central London on Thursday 2nd December and Manchester on Thursday 1…
NOTE: Enterprise Guide 4.1 Expires December 1st UNLESS…
You may recall my post this time last year in which I highlighted the fact that Enterprise Guide 4.1 will expire and stop working on December 1st 2010 unless you have applied 9 or later. Today is November 1st, so you have one month left if you haven’t …
Strip Characters From Between Two Delimiters
I obviously need more practice using SAS. Sometimes I can figure stuff out, other times I feel like a junior programmer. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to extract text between two multi-character delimiters.
Here is an exampl…
Play Matrix within SAS(1): basic files processing
Recently I read Rick Wicklin’s IML blog with great interests(and anticipation for his fore-coming IML book, Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software). SAS programmers have the following programming tools to facilitate their daily work:
SAS data step: the basic SAS; a generation IV programming language, similar with other procedural languages such as C.
SAS Proc SQL: SAS’s […]
NOTE: DATA Step’s _N_ is PROC SQL’s Monotonic
I’ve made a few posts over the last few months about SQL (particularly its use within Enterprise Guide). One of my unstated issues with SQL is the inability to do the equivalent of DATA step’s _N_ to count unique rows. The ability to add a sequence num…
NOTE: SAS TALKS Celebrates One Year
At the same time as we mark the passing of Benoît Mandelbrot, SAS TALKS is celebrating its first birthday.
SAS TALKS is a series of free webinars offered by SAS and featuring SAS technical experts. You can watch any of the last year’s ten webinars fr…