SAS author's tip: Inputting data using text value positioning

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 19, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Phil Mason and his ever-helpful book In the Know…SAS Tips and Techniques From Around the Globe, Second Edition. When the book released in 2006, it received a lot of praise from the user community. This quote from SAS user Ron Fehd is a personal favorite: “Phil Mason, one of the SAS [...]

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Learn how to become a published author at SAS Global Forum

Shelley Sessoms
Shelley Sessoms|April 4, 2013

Where do you go when you want to mix and mingle with like-minded folks? Where do you go when you want to share best practices and talk about the latest advances in software? If you’re a SAS user, the answer is SAS Global Forum in San Francisco. And while in [...]

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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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Setting new goals? Come grow with us!

Julie Platt
Julie Platt|January 15, 2013

It’s that time of year when we all reflect on our accomplishments and consider what our next great moves will be. Maybe you’ve been wondering how you could have a greater impact on the SAS user community, develop your SAS skills further, impress your boss, maybe even become famous in [...]

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SAS author's tip: Creating permanent data sets

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|December 7, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from Phil Mason and his ever-popular book In the Know…SAS Tips and Techniques From Around the Globe, Second Edition. In a review, SAS user Ian Whitlock said “Phil Mason is the grand master in the art of the SAS software tip.” It was definitely difficult picking just one excerpt to [...]

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SAS author’s tip: Useful secret options

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|July 27, 2012

In honor of the 2012 Olympics, this week’s SAS tip is from award-winning UK author Phil Mason and his book In the Know…SAS Tips and Techniques from Around the Globe, Second Edition. SAS user Ron Fehd proclaimed Phil Mason “one of the SAS user community’s famous creative tinkerers–the SAS user version [...]

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SAS author's tip: Define variables once

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|July 13, 2012

Jack Shostak is the Associate Director of Statistics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. A SAS user since 1985, Jack has two SAS books under his belt with a third on the way. This week’s SAS tip is from Shotak’s SAS Programming in the Pharmaceutical Industry.  The following excerpt is from SAS Press [...]

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SAS author's tip: debugging with the LIST option

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 18, 2012

This week’s tip comes from SAS powerhouse Art Carpenter and his book Carpenter’s Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure. SAS user Kim LeBouton called this book “the single best resource for PROC REPORT.” And in his review, SAS user Charles Patridge said “This is a must-have book if you are a SAS [...]

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Bookstore reports from SAS Global Forum: day one

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 24, 2012

Resourceful Publications colleagues shared highlights of day one at SAS Global Forum. SAS documentation, Kindle Fire surveys, SAS students, preview copies, and high-performance analytics top the list: Sean Gargan – Director, SAS Publishing Monday morning musing from the Bookstore at SAS Global Forum… I had the good fortune to meet three enterprising [...]

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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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