SAS author's tip: selecting variables to include in output

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 8, 2012

This week’s tip comes from three authors who’ve made a big impact within the SAS user community. Lauren Haworth, Cynthia Zender, and Michele Burlew partnered up to write Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond a couple of years ago-and their book remains a bestselling go-to guide for anyone wanting to learn more about ODS. [...]

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SAS author's tip: Alternative ODS destinations

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|February 27, 2012

Neil Constable is a Principal Education Consultant at SAS in the United Kingdom, where he applies his extensive knowledge of Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, and the SAS business intelligence tools. He’s also the author of SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide Users, Second Edition–and this week’s featured tip. You can get to know Neil [...]

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SAS author's tip: TAGSETS.RTF and table of contents

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|August 5, 2011

I bet that many of you reading our blog are familiar with accomplished SAS users and authors Lauren Haworth, Cynthia Zender, and Michele Burlew. Together, they form a powerful triumvirate of SAS experience. If you get a chance to pick up their book Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond [...]

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Author Spotlight: Mike Molter and The ODS Tagset Experience

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 10, 2010

Contributed by Mike Molter, Principal Statistical Programmer, INC Research I’m writing this from an altitude of 35,000 feet. As I try to squeeze my 6’1” frame into a space clearly designed for passengers no taller than 5 feet while trying to find a place to put my left elbow because [...]

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Two and Half Lost Concepts

Christine Kjellberg|March 26, 2010

As Stacey mentioned in her last blog post, she’s a fan of the television show Lost, as I am too. Often our final few minutes of study group will discuss the numerous theories regarding the Lost castaways and their island stories and sideways stories. For 5 minutes or so, it’s [...]

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On the Job: A Graph is Worth a 1,000 Words...

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 15, 2010

Contributed by Warren Kuhfeld, Analytical Solutions Manager, Research & Development SAS/GRAPH software was first released when I was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1980s. I remember submitting a SAS program to make a graph and then walking to the computing [...]

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Wrapping up 2009

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|January 4, 2010

Contributed by Michele Burlew, president of Episystems Inc. and SAS Publishing author What a great way to end 2009 by having both Combining and Modifying SAS Data Sets: Examples, Second Edition (CMDS) and Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond (ODS) in print! Each is a hefty stocking stuffer for [...]

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An editor's wrap up

John West
John West|December 22, 2009

As the year comes to a close, you have no doubt seen by our many book promotions how busy all of us in SAS Press have been this year. For me personally, it has been a very productive and gratifying year to see three of my book projects become a [...]

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Two new titles, one relieved editor

John West
John West|November 12, 2009

I’m excited to announce that SAS Press will have two more new books available for sale soon! Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond by Lauren Haworth, Cynthia Zender, and Michele Burlew, and Combining and Modifying SAS Data Sets: Examples, Second Edition by Michele Burlew will be available November 16th. [...]

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