Last year I published an example application for searching your SAS Enterprise Guide project files (EGP files). The example shows off some of the cool features of the automation API, and it’s a useful tool. As neat of an example as that was, it had some limitations. It worked only […]
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How to send an email from SAS to members of a distribution list
In your organization, are you prevented from using the email alias of a distribution list (e.g. groupname@comp.domain.com), and would therefore like to extract the list recipients into a flat file to loop through/use the SAS Enterprise Miner functions,…
Getting Started in the Year of Statistics
~ Contributed by Maura Stokes, Sr Director, R&D, SAS ~ If you’ve been on the SAS campus lately, you would have noticed banners on the streets announcing 2013 as the International Year of Statistics. The major statistical societies designed …
So you want to install the Platform for SAS Business Analytics?
So you want to install the SAS Intelligence Platform on a server, but you just don’t have the time to read the documentation about how to perform the install. Or, maybe, you just do not feel comfortable jumping into the install on your own. Let me …
Turn your data set into a DATA step program
Sometimes I need to “disassemble” a SAS data set into a DATA step program. It’s kind of like creating a “freeze-dried” version of the data that you can carry around and use anywhere, re-hydrating it in the SAS session where you next need it. Some example uses for this: Build […]
Maintaining prompt selections in multiple Web Report Sections (v4.3)
SAS Technical Support has a wonderful how-to guide for using one set of prompt values across multiple sections of a Web Report Studio report. This works great in 4.2, however there is one additional item that I discovered in a 4.3/9.3 install. With the…
A neat new trick to trim your macro variables in 9.3
SAS macro variables are a great way to store a calculated value, so you can use it later in your code. They are not just limited to the data step — you can also use macro variables in title statements, axis statements, etc. By default, the macro v…
Side effects of working at a great place
I’m now into my 20th year of working for SAS. This year in November I’ll have my 20th “SAS-iversary” and thus mark the beginning of my third decade here. I’ve worked here since the Clinton administration. I’ve met SAS employees who were actually not yet born when I attended my […]