Today is Feb 29, –another leap year! I just found it is a good chance to raise the topic of logic operators again. To determine if 2012 is a leap year, use the straightforward logic expression (demo is SAS, follow the pseudo code in the wiki page of leap year): if mod(year,4) = 0 then […]
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NOTE: Hot Fix Home
A recent upgrade from SAS 9.1 to 9.2 necessitated an upgrade from Enterprise Guide (and Add-In for Microsoft Office) 4.1 to 4.3 for one of my clients. Disappointingly, the EG and Add-In upgrades didn’t prove to be the smoothest, and the exper…
NOTE: Enterprise Guide 5.1 – Now Shipping!
If you haven’t already picked-up the news from elsewhere, I should tell you that Enterprise Guide 5.1 (EG 5.1) started shipping earlier this month. For SAS 9.2 and 9.3 only* at this point in time, EG 5.1 looks like it adds some decent new functionality…
Rails and Recent d3.js Examples
A lot of my free time has been spent running and developing a running log using rails. I want greater control of monitoring / visualizing each training cycle than the sites out there will let me have (no API’s..). Thus, I’ll just build my own! This whole thing was spurred by my dabbling in […]
GitHub and Weekend Programming
Yihui of Iowa State just texted me that GitHub is programmers’ Facebook. Inspired by him(great thanks!), I also begin to play with GitHub now: https://github.com/Jiangtang Currently I only created one repo as personal SAS code repository. To kill weekend time, I uploaded piece of codes to count the OpenCDISC validation rules by models. To use […]
Column Mode in SAS 9.3 Enhanced Editor
A Sunday finding, column mode new in SAS 9.3 Enhanced Editor (in Windows OS):
Currently this column mode only supports selecting (highlighting) but not editing. Hoo, it’s better than nothing.
Face Off: Review OpenCDISC XML files
OpenCDISC, the first open source CDISC validator, is already in the toolbox of FDA reviewers (CDER/CBER, see CDISC Standards in the Regulatory Submission Process, 26 January 2012, P.33). The key features in OpenCDISC is a dichotomy of validation rules (XML based) and application logic. Currently OpenCDISC Validator (Version 1.2.1) officially supports the four following CDISC […]
On Unpublished Software
sciseekclaimtoken-4f343317d3d60 I ran across this post at The Tree of Life entitled ‘Interesting new metagenomics paper w/ one big big big caveat – critical software not available”. The long and short of it? Paper appears in Science, has fancy new methodology, lacks the software for someone else to use their methodology. Blog author understandably annoyed. But I […]