Tag: SAS

Get Start with WPS, and Call for an Elegant SAS IDE!

I got a trial version of WPS (the latest version 2.5.2.0 at Windows), which engine can interpret “some of the language of SAS”. I took piece of codes for testing and some passed while some popped up with errors (so currently it is only a limited version of SAS). I don’t drive into the deep […]

NOTE: Every Day’s a Learning Day!

Pope Gregory XIII
The purpose of me attending SAS courses is to teach, and I’d like to think I’m successful at doing that, but not a course goes by without me learning a little tip or trick from one of the learners. Today’s was most interesting……

NOTE: Every Day’s a Learning Day!

Pope Gregory XIII
The purpose of me attending SAS courses is to teach, and I’d like to think I’m successful at doing that, but not a course goes by without me learning a little tip or trick from one of the learners. Today’s was most interesting……

NOTE: Every Day’s a Learning Day!

Pope Gregory XIII
The purpose of me attending SAS courses is to teach, and I’d like to think I’m successful at doing that, but not a course goes by without me learning a little tip or trick from one of the learners. Today’s was most interesting……

Avoid Magic Numbers

Mention of my university days last week reminded me of an old maxim that my professor drummed into me. Avoid magic numbers.

Have you ever had to amend a colleague’s code and found a number in the middle of a calculation and wondered what the si…

Avoid Magic Numbers

Mention of my university days last week reminded me of an old maxim that my professor drummed into me. Avoid magic numbers.

Have you ever had to amend a colleague’s code and found a number in the middle of a calculation and wondered what the si…

Avoid Magic Numbers

Mention of my university days last week reminded me of an old maxim that my professor drummed into me. Avoid magic numbers.

Have you ever had to amend a colleague’s code and found a number in the middle of a calculation and wondered what the si…

NOTE: Macro Options

Last week I wrote about the availability of the IN operator in macro through the use of the MINOPERATOR system option. I mentioned that SAS v9.0/9.1 had introduced a number of useful features to the SAS macro capability. Here are some options that you …