Sometimes you find yourself wanting to repeat a SAS® software installation or deployment with the same, or slightly different, options. Perhaps you want to start an installation again after realizing that you chose a wrong option the first time ar…
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Good Morning, Hotfix Tool for SAS 9.4
The first news I got from today’s inbox is that SAS Hot Fix Analysis Download and Deployment Tool (SASHFADD) for SAS 9.4 is released today. Just yesterday I found it was not available.
I did a quick launching and it works fine. Check it out:
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Open Box: SAS 9.4 in Windows 7
That’s a record in my personal SAS software adoption: SAS 9.4 was released at 10 July 2013 and I just got it installed two weeks later! Here my first-day notes with SAS 9.4: 1. SAS Foundation 9.4 can be co-existed with SAS 9.3. If SAS 9.3 was already installed, the default of path of 9.4 […]
List Processing With SAS (2): List Creating II
%range is a genetic list creator. To apply data driven programming technique, we need to fetch metadata from source data dynamically, for example, to get all variables from a input dataset. You can easily make it by 1. PROC SQL, from a SAS dictionary table, or macro variable by SELECT INTO; or 2. Proc Contents; […]
Finding SAS Depot Release Numbers
Checking the detailed release number(s) for SAS® software in a depot is one of those things I do rarely enough that I have to look it up each time I need to do it. I know it’s in the depot somewhere, but I keep forgetting exactly where. This…
The Return of SAS System Viewer
SAS Universal Viewer (UV) jumped out since SAS 9.2 and in most cases, it’s installed as replacement for the SAS System Viewer(SV) but I reinstalled SV in all machines where I had the right privileges. UV has some nice new feature but for me it is extremely and unacceptably slow. Every time I open a […]
NOTE: SAS 9.4 is Functioning Well
The unveiling of a new version of SAS always brings big, exciting new features and capabilities, but I love checking-out the detail too. New functions (and new function parameters) invariably provide interest too.
SAS 9.4 brings the DS2 la…
Calculate RMSE and MAE in R and SAS
Here is code to calculate RMSE and MAE in R and SAS. RMSE (root mean squared error), also called RMSD (root mean squared deviation), and MAE (mean absolute error) are both used to evaluate models. MAE gives equal weight to all errors, while RMSE gives…