When you weren’t watching, SAS did it again. We smuggled Yet Another Excel Engine into a SAS release. SAS 9.2 Maintenance 2 added the XLSX engine, which allows you to read and write Microsoft Excel files as if they were data sets in a library. The big advantage of using […]
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Mount St. Helens volcano here in the US had a big eruption 35 years ago this week! Do you know exactly where it is located? Perhaps this SAS map can help… As you might have guessed, I’m a big fan of the awesome power of nature (hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes, and […]
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Dataset too big for PROC PRINT? One weird trick solves your problem! proc print data=bigdata (obs=10); run; The OBS= dataset option specifies the last observation to process from an input dataset. In the above example, regardless of dataset size, only the first 10 observations are printed; an easy way to […]
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As a kid, I was always intrigued with UFO sightings and I guess I’m still a little that way … therefore how could I not jump at the opportunity to explore some UFO sightings data! I guess “UFO” doesn’t necessarily imply that something is an alien space ship – just […]
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Are you a VIEWTABLE fan from the SAS Windowing Environment (a.k.a. Display Manager, DMS, PC SAS)? If so, the latest version of SAS Enterprise Guide has a new feature that you’ll love. With the latest update to SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 (7.11), you can now subset your data in the […]
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In recent releases of SAS, you can use Output Delivery System graphics or ‘ODS graphics on’ to produce nice graphical output for most of the analytic procedures. These default graphs are nice, but when you want your graphs to look “a certain way” SAS also lets you create your own custom graphs! […]
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I’ve written about how to use the FILENAME ZIP method to read and update ZIP files in your SAS programs. The ZIP method was added in SAS 9.4, and its advantage is that you can accomplish more in SAS without having to launch external utilities such as WinZip, gunzip, or […]
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I was surprised to find that the size of the U.S. federal government is smaller today, than in the past many decades – let’s graph it out, so it’s easy to analyze… The way I got started on this little adventure was via Jishai’s graph on dadaviz.com. Here’s a snapshot […]
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