How much time will your process flow take to run?

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|May 15, 2012

SAS users, by definition, do not embrace the mysterious. That’s one of the main reasons that they use SAS: to demystify some data or process. And so, when you (as a SAS user) have gone to the trouble of designing a process flow in SAS Enterprise Guide, you like to [...]

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A SAS options viewer for SAS Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|December 16, 2011

On the heels of the release of the popular SAS macro variable viewer from last month, I’m providing another custom task that I hope will prove just as useful. This one is a SAS options viewer, similar in concept to the OPTIONS window in SAS display manager. You can download [...]

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Inspecting SAS macro variables in SAS Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|November 22, 2011

The SAS macro variable “inspector” is a custom task that plugs into SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3. You can use it to view the current values for all SAS macro variables that are defined within your SAS session. You can also evaluate “immediate” macro expressions in a convenient quick view window. [...]

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Running PROCs on Your Facebook Friends (2011 version)

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 3, 2011

While talking to fellow SAS users at SAS Global Forum 2011 this week, I’ll be discussing how SAS programmers can “play” with social media data that they can access on Facebook and Twitter. I always refer people to my blog for more information, and so I’ve prepared this blog post [...]

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Using ODS Graphics Designer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|March 2, 2011

The ODS Graphics Designer allows you to design and build your own statistical graphs in SAS, without having to learn how to program in the new graph template language (GTL). The ODS Graphics Designer is a rich user interface that allows you to design these graphs based upon your own [...]

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Putting the squeeze on your SAS data sets

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|February 17, 2011

I’ve known several people who were raised during the Great Depression, and I’ve observed that they are very mindful of waste. My wife’s grandmother used to save plastic bags, twist ties, and relatively clean aluminum foil for potential reuse in the household — because such materials were once scarce. The [...]

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I'm not supposed to be writing this

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|February 8, 2011

I’m not supposed to be working on this blog post right now. I’ve stayed late at the office under the pretense of working on “the book.” It’s the book about creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide, and I’ve been working on it for quite a while. I enjoy writing [...]

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Export to Excel 2007/2010 using SAS Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|October 1, 2010

Since its 4.2 release, SAS Enterprise Guide has been able to import Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010 spreadsheet files (usually encountered as .XLSX files). But while SAS Enterprise Guide can export XLS files (which are compatible with all versions of Microsoft Excel), it does not have the ability to export [...]

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Viewing SAS catalogs from SAS Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|May 10, 2010

SAS catalogs have been around for a long time. Not quite as long as the Sears or L.L. Bean catalogs, but SAS customers have used catalogs to store and retrieve content for many years. A SAS catalog is a special type of SAS file that acts as a container, like [...]

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Custom tasks that do the job

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|January 31, 2010

Andy wrote in the NOTE: blog that he’s stumbled upon a few custom tasks to extend features in SAS Enterprise Guide. He wondered aloud whether there might be more “free” tasks out there, available for use by anyone who can find them and download them. The answer is: You betcha!* [...]

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