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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Using 3rd party shape files to build map charts in SAS Not much detail in this map of Australia](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2011/08/mapchart_coarse.png)
While talking to SAS users in Australia earlier this month, I often demonstrated the capabilities of the new Map Chart task in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3. Creating map charts has never been easier: select your map data source, then select your response data source, and click Run. Voila! You've got
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One of the great innovations with SAS 9.3 is the focus on ODS statistical graphics. "Wait a minute," you're thinking, "weren't ODS graphics added in SAS 9.2?" Yes, that's true. But with SAS 9.3 there is even more capability: more analytical SAS procedures support the graphs, and there are more
![Computing age in SAS 9.3](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
It seems like such a simple problem: how can you reliably compute the age of someone or something? Susan lamented the subtle issues using the YRDIF function exactly 1.0356164384 years ago. Sure, you could write your own function for calculating such things, as I suggested 0.1753424658 years ago. Or you
![How to assign a library to the same path as your SAS Enterprise Guide project](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-1.png)
SAS Enterprise Guide sets values for several useful SAS macro variables when it connects to a SAS session, including one macro variable, &_CLIENTPROJECTPATH, that contains the name and path of the current SAS Enterprise Guide project file. (To learn about this and other macro variables that SAS Enterprise Guide assigns,
![Frequently asked questions about SAS 9.3 and SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
As I write this, SAS 9.3 has not yet been "shipped", but its release is imminent. I've already heard many questions about how SAS Enterprise Guide works with the new version, so I decided to write this "Frequently-soon-to-be-asked questions" document to help sort it out. What version of SAS Enterprise
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The recent issue of InformationWeek features a Q&A session with Ken Thompson, one of the creators of the Unix operating system. (He collaborated with Dennis Ritchie, of C language fame. Since much of SAS is written in C, I daresay there are a few copies of K&R around here.) One