It’s good to see the appearance of the SAS 9.4 documentation publicly in the last day or so. I shall be scouring it over the weekend!
SAS 9.4 undoubtedly provides new capabilities for programmers and data analysts, but it also promises simplified an…
Suppose you have 10 datasets, literally ds1, ds2, …ds10 and you need to concatenate them all. You may first get a quick shortcut set ds1-ds10. If such list members were generated dynamically (and may hold a form like ds1a, ds2a,… ds10a) , you will probably come out a macro solution: %macro doit; data […]
SAS 9.3 was released at July 2011 when I former company just successfully launched an upgrading to SAS 9.2. SAS 9.2 came to life at March 2008 (it’s a big leap) and at that time I played with SAS 9.1.3 heavily. Yesterday(10Jul2013) was the official release day for SAS 9.4 while I just got my […]
Today is a sad day. As of today, Google Reader is no more. I’ve previously mentioned how much I use Google Reader to keep tabs on news around the internet, and I’ve encouraged readership of NOTE: via Google Reader or other similar tools.
The demise …
I’ve been doing a few SAS® platform installations lately and I noticed in the documentation some neat enhancements in SAS 9.3 M2: The SAS Download Manager, in addition to downloading a SAS software depot for your order, also downloads specia…
It seems the list of SAS preproduction is becoming shorter. Thanks for any inputs (just tested in SAS 9.3): 1. Output Data Step View (v.s Input Data Step View) WARNING: The definition of an output DATA step view is an experimental feature in this release and is not intended for use in the development of […]
Seek and you shall find. Isn’t Google wonderful? I’m a keen proponent of Agile software development practices and processes. I’ve long been curious to know more about the software development processes used within the various teams at SAS. Jason Burke …
A week or so back I highlighted two best paper winners from this year’s SAS Global Forum – Steve Overton and John Heaton – and I then subsequently highlighted one of John’s papers. I thought I should do the same for Steve, but then I saw a blog post fr…