When trying to write out graphics to a specific filename location, the gsfname option is only honored when ODS LISTING is turned on and ODS HTML is turned off. This is especially important in 9.3 Base SAS as the ODS HTML option is the default output de…
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Bridging the gap between statisticians and stakeholders
The Analytics 2011 Conference, taking place Oct. 24-25 in Orlando, FL, is quickly approaching. Larry Seligman, a session speaker at the conference, recently took the time to answer some questions about his presentation and what he is looking forward to…
Calling Windows PowerShell from SAS: a simple example
As I mentioned in my introductory post about Windows PowerShell, you can use PowerShell commands as a simple and concise method to collect data from your Windows systems; information that is ripe for analysis within SAS. In this example, I’ll show a technique for using a SAS program to call […]
Increasing the web timeout intervals
I’ve been spending my weekends developing a SAS Publishing book proposal. (For those interested, it involves learning how to fully leverage SAS Stored Processes as a beginning programmer.) Creating examples and jumping between coding, testing and then …
What’s our sign?
Rick Wicklin and I are engaged in an arms race of birthday-related blog posts. To recap: Rick analyzed national data about births in the USA and what time of year they are most likely to occur. I responded by analyzing the birthdays of my Facebook friends. Rick responded by analyzing […]
Performance Help for SAS®9 on Windows 2008
Configuring and tuning an environment is part luck and part science. Luckily, a group of employees at SAS dedicate their time to helping you improve system performance. Margaret Crevar is one of those people. She just recently shared several papers w…
Editing .sas source code repository from 9.3 SAS Management Console
As I have previously mentioned, SAS 9.3 has some sweet new functionality for stored processes. The topic of the prior post was on storing .sas code for the stored process directly within the metadata and how to edit/access that raw code. Did you know t…
Running Windows PowerShell Scripts
Windows PowerShell is one of my favorite tools to use for gathering information from my PC and network, and also for automating processes. If you are familiar with UNIX shells (such as Korn shell or its variants), you will probably be very comfortable with Windows PowerShell. Just like its UNIX […]