It's always encouraging to get feedback about my blog articles and/or see an article spark some conversation. Last week's Date Increments (INTNX and INTCK) featured the INTNX function for incrementing (or decrementing) date, time, and datetime values b...
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We all try to write data-driven code, or code that provides some degree of flexibility regarding its input data. We see these approaches as reducing maintenance and making the code more robust. There are a number of features in the SAS language that al...
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There aren't many SAS programmers who haven't used PROC MEANS (or its alter ego PROC SUMMARY) to aggregate (summarise) their data. PROC MEANS is a familiar tool for most SAS programmers, and the process of subsequently selecting specific values of _TYP...
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Following my feature of Metacoda and their security plug-ins last week, I have to feature Phil Holland. As I said last week, I'm a keen supporter of the third-party market for SAS-related products. In addition to his two published books (Saving Time an...
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That's what happens when you take a break! I've not posted in here for a couple of months; my first post after my break (NOTE: When WORK is not WORK) looks a little sloppy. Damn!
The information was technically correct, but I've had a couple of polite...
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When you code a one-level data set name, i.e. a data set name with no libname specified, you probably expect it to be read or written from/to the WORK library, but that might not be so. Read on...
Subject to the value of the USER= option, one-level da...
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One of the other "futures" sessions I attended at SAS Global Forum was The New SAS Programming Language: DS2 with SAS's Jason Secosky. Jason was at pains to point out that DS2 is not intended as a replacement for the good old DATA step. DS2 is an alter...
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My team received what turned out to be an interesting call for help from one of our clients today. We resolved the client's coding error but it also served as a reminder of a little used feature of BASE SAS, namely the ability to specify director...
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