Whether your resolution is to get SAS certified or to become a more advanced SAS programmer, we’ve got you covered with these new titles and upcoming SAS Press books, many of which will be making their bookshelf debut at SAS® Global Forum 2017 in Orlando, FL! Want to be notified when a new book […]
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At SAS, we’ve published more repositories on GitHub as a way to share our open source projects and examples. These “repos” (that’s Git lingo) are created and maintained by experts in R&D, professional services (consulting), and SAS training. Some recent examples include: sas_kernel, which provides Jupyter notebook support for SAS. […]
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If you do much traveling in the United States, you’re bound to hear a few words and expressions that are unique to certain areas. Well y’all get ready, because I’m fixin’ to analyze some of those words for ya! I recently found a really neat web application called The Great […]
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How many of you have been given a SAS data set with variables such as Age, Height, and Weight and some or all of them were stored as character values instead of numeric? Probably EVERYONE! Yes, we all know how to do the old “swap and drop” (rename and convert), but […]
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Data analysis can be used for many things … how about finding other beers you might like, so you don’t keep drinking the same old brand every time? Hang on tight – I think we’re about to make a beer run! I recently read an interesting article on the Flowingdata website, […]
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This SAS Jedi is very excited about the SAS 9.4 M4 release, which brought many wonderful gifts just in time for Christmas. So in the interest of extending the Christmas spirit, I’m going to blog about some of my favorites! I’ve long loved the SAS DO statement variant which allows […]
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SAS temporary arrays are an underutilized jewel in the SAS toolbox. I find that many beginning to intermediate SAS programmers are not familiar with temporary arrays. The good news is that there is nothing complicated about them and they are very useful. First of all, what is a temporary array? […]
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TL; DR Free training from SAS: “SAS Programming for R Users.” The schedule of Live Web offerings is here. If you prefer self-study, the complete course materials are on the SAS Software GitHub space and you can practice with the free SAS University Edition software. The details: how R programmers […]
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