The closing date for submission of papers for SAS Global Forum (SGF) 2012 has passed, but registration is now open. If you can get yourself to Florida, USA 22-25 April 2012, you will benefit from a vast array of papers (from SAS staff and from SAS cu…
Tag: SAS
Protecting the Unrestricted from Impersonation
I was asked a very insightful question about SAS® metadata security this week. This question and the ensuing investigation means I’ll now consider the inclusion of protections for unrestricted users in my metadata security plans. Especially …
Baseline Security Metadata for a new SAS® 9.3 Deployment
When I’m reviewing SAS® metadata security implementations, I find it useful to have baseline security metadata to refer to. This baseline documents the initial state of metadata security (ACTs, ACEs, users, groups, roles, capabilities, prote…
Vim as A SAS IDE
Few configurations (just copy this sas.vim file to C:\Program Files\vim\vim73\syntax if you also use gVIM 7.3 at Windows) to make Vim as a simple SAS IDE where F3: run SAS codes (in batch mode) F4: close other two windows (the current active window is Log window after F3 running; F4 jump to SAS file with […]
Train neural network in R, predict in SAS
This R code fits an artificial neural network in R and generates Base SAS code, so new records can be scored entirely in Base SAS. This is intended to be a simple, elegant, fast solution. You don’t need SAS Enterprise Miner, IML, or any other spe…
Logistic function macro for SAS
Used in logistic regression, neural networks, and countless other applications, the logistic function is simple to understand yet can be quirky to calculate in SAS because of how SAS treats extreme values. First, let’s consider the value -1000: R…
My Collection of SAS Macro Repositories
Then I just find that the most effective and safest way to synchronize bookmarks across machines is making them Google searchable, i.e, putting them online. Followings are my personal collections of SAS macro Repositories (I will keep it update according to new sites reached and your inputs). Most of them are rich, well documented and […]
Metacoda Security Plug-ins Tip: Where’s that login?
This is a tip for Metacoda Security Plug-ins users who might have a need to track down which user or group identity in their SAS® metadata owns a particular user id. Have you ever gone to add a login to a user or group identity in the SAS Manageme…