e-Courses have gone mobile so you can too! Try the new e-Courses and register for a free IPad® at SAS Global Forum

Nancy Goodyear
Nancy Goodyear|April 15, 2013

We’ve gone mobile so you can too. Come see us at SAS Global Forum  and be one of the first to try our new e-Courses on the tablet!  SAS Programming 1 and SAS Programming 2, soon available on your tablet devices, also feature free access to the SAS Practice editor [...]

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Jedi SAS Tricks: Finding Tattoine with DS2

Mark Jordan
Mark Jordan|April 8, 2013

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is the most “Tatooine-like” planet yet found in our galaxy.” While catching up on my reading, this article from NASA’s Kepler project fired my imagination! At last, perhaps, [...]

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SAS training students talked, and we listened

Linda Mitterling
Linda Mitterling|March 19, 2013

“Speak and you shall be heard.”  Well… our students spoke, and we listened!  SAS Education is always striving to improve the training we deliver, and one of the most important ways we do this is by taking the time to listen to our students. Over the past several months, our [...]

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Time to trade in your jalopy macro?

Jim Simon
Jim Simon|February 11, 2013

Suppose you have an old jalopy that’s perfectly reliable.  Your jalopy gets you where you wanna go: no frills; no drama. Do you trade your old wheels in for a racecar that accelerates like crazy and corners like it’s on rails? Or stick with what’s old and comfortable?   Your choice [...]

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How to send an email from SAS to members of a distribution list

Michele Reister
Michele Reister|January 24, 2013

In your organization, are you prevented from using the email alias of a distribution list (e.g. groupname@comp.domain.com), and would therefore like to extract the list recipients into a flat file to loop through/use the SAS Enterprise Miner functions, etc. to send the mail? This question was recently asked by a [...]

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A neat new trick to trim your macro variables in 9.3

Robert Allison
Robert Allison|January 17, 2013

SAS macro variables are a great way to store a calculated value, so you can use it later in your code.  They are not just limited to the data step — you can also use macro variables in title statements, axis statements, etc. By default, the macro variable will be padded with [...]

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Top 10 blogs of 2012

Maggie Alexander
Maggie Alexander|January 2, 2013

We decided to take a look back at our blogs in 2012 and see what piqued the interest of our readers. We had a little bit of everything from tricks to advice on all things SAS. Here’s the list of the Top 10 Blogs from 2012. Enjoy reading them again [...]

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3 gifts to magically transform your data

Charu Shankar
Charu Shankar|December 20, 2012

‘Tis the season to be gifting!  So what could be better than gifting your fellow SAS user or yourself with three gifts to celebrate the holiday season? As 2012 comes to an end, we think it’s a great idea to be thinking of ringing in the New Year with dynamic [...]

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It’s war… Stat Wars!

Maggie Alexander
Maggie Alexander|December 11, 2012

There’s a new video series launching in the SAS Education department unlike anything that’s ever been done before.  It’s called Stat Wars. Here’s how it works… two SAS instructors go head-to-head and battle it out over a statistics challenge. (So far no injuries have been reported.)  It’s educational and engaging, [...]

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