SAS author's tip: Creating a cross-tabulation table

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 12, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his popular book SAS Statistics by Example. Ron is the author of many bestselling SAS books. If you like this week’s excerpt, visit his author page for additional bonus content from his books! The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Ron [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using a MODIFY statement to update a master file from a transaction file

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 1, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his new book Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. If you’re a SAS user and haven’t explored Ron’s work, you’re missing out! Visit Ron’s author page to view his extensive list of SAS books, user [...]

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SAS author's tip: Computing some useful constants

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|January 4, 2013

This first SAS tip of 2013 comes from the illustrious Ron Cody and his bestselling book Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer’s Guide. I hope you’ll find this excerpt helpful- as well as all of our future weekly tips on this blog. Here’s to a great year! The following excerpt is from SAS Press [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using informats to filter invalid values

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|November 2, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his book Cody’s Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition. Ron is the popular author of several bestselling SAS books and has been a SAS user since 1977. Visit Ron’s author page for lots of bonus content, including a free chapter from his [...]

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Ron Cody's 6 helpful tasks for SAS users

Aimee Rodriguez
Aimee Rodriguez|September 27, 2012

Ron Cody’s at it again. It’s like he just can’t help himself; he knows SAS and wants to help others know it too. His new book, Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them gathers often-used programming tasks and techniques in one handy volume, allowing users [...]

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Ron Cody’s next book gets early rave reviews

Aimee Rodriguez
Aimee Rodriguez|September 17, 2012

Ron Cody’s newest book, Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them, is already getting high marks from early reviewers. Gerry Hobbs (West Virginia University), says, “This is an excellent book that deserves a place on every SAS professional’s bookcase.” Long-time SAS user Andrew T. Kuligowski [...]

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Do you like learning by example?

Sandy Varner
Sandy Varner|September 6, 2012

Around the country and in my neighborhood, kids everywhere have returned to school. We’ve made it through the back-to-school ads in our newspapers, social media, and on TV. Our pocket books are lighter now (and credit cards heavier) with all the spending on school supplies and the very important back-to-school [...]

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SAS author's tip: a short-cut for requesting multiple tables

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 23, 2012

Ron Cody is the author of several bestselling SAS books, including his latest SAS Statistics by Example. He’s also one of the most highly regarded SAS experts anywhere. One could even make the case that Ron has achieved somewhat of a cult status within the SAS user community. Whether you’ve gotten a chance to meet Ron [...]

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SAS author's tip: creating a bar chart using PROC SGPLOT

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 23, 2012

This week’s tip comes from Ron Cody – SAS author and expert extraordinaire. Ron’s written several bestselling SAS Press books including his latest SAS Statistics by Example. If you haven’t taken a look at Ron’s extensive work, I’d invite you to visit his author page. You can read a free chapter from each of [...]

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Three's the charm with Ron Cody

Sandy Varner
Sandy Varner|February 28, 2012

Three is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4. Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System. Humans perceive white light as the mixture of the three additive primary hues: red, green, and blue. Genetic information is encoded in DNA and RNA using a triplet codon system. [...]

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