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Larry LaRussoDecember 10, 2018 0

Navigating the Candy Wall of SAS Support Resources

While support.sas.com remains the holy grail of SAS support resources, there are so many good choices, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start. That’s why we’ve put together a new guide to make things easier for new SAS users: the SAS Starter Kit.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Marcia SurrattNovember 28, 2018 4

Making great graphs even better with ODS Graphics

This blog post shows a few samples of graphs and explains how you can use new functionality in ODS Graphics to make your old graphs look new again. ODS Graphics is part of Base SAS.

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Joe FurbeeNovember 16, 2018 4

Using SAS Cloud Analytics Service REST APIs to run CAS Actions

Disclaimer: this article does not cover or promote any political views. It’s all about data and REST APIs. I am relieved, thankful, elated, glad, thrilled, joyful (I could go on with more synonyms from my thesaurus.com search for 'happy') November 6, 2018 has come and gone. Election day is over.

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Steven SoberNovember 14, 2018 4

How to achieve repeatable results with distributed DATA Step BY Groups

Prior to distributed DATA Step, DATA Step programmers never had to think about achieving repeatable results because DATA Step ran single-threaded and the source SAS7BDAT dataset was stored on disk. But if you need to obtain repeatable results in DATA Step code that runs distributed in CAS, this post provides a workaround that you'll want to keep handy.

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Brian KinnebrewNovember 13, 2018 0

Customize your CASL code with built-in and user-defined functions

This blog post outlines how to create your own CAS functions using the CAS Language. It also includes a partial list of both CASL built-in and common functions for reference.

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Kevin D. SmithNovember 6, 2018 0

Great tip for dynamic data selection using SAS Viya and Python

You can communicate with various clients (SAS, Python, Lua, Java, and REST) in the same place using SAS® Cloud Base Analytics Services (CAS) in SAS Viya. But before you can do any analysis in CAS you need some data to work with, and a way to get to it. Check out this dynamic data selection tip using SAS Viya and Python.

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Kevin D. SmithNovember 2, 2018 0

How to use SAS® Viya® and R for dynamic data selection

In their new book, SAS Viya: the R Perspective, Kevin Smith and Xiangxiang Meng provide an overview of using R with the SAS Viya platform. Read on to see how R programmers can use CAS.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Adam BullockNovember 1, 2018 9

How to automate a data download with PROC HTTP

SAS Technical Support has had several requests from customers who want to use SAS® software to help download their files from a website when there is no application programming interface (API) to do it. This post shows how to automate downloads using PROC HTTP and DATA step, and how to use the HTTP DEBUG statement.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeOctober 31, 2018 14

Using SAS Viya REST APIs to access images from SAS Visual Analytics

This article is the first in a series of three publications covering REST APIs and their use in, and with SAS. Today, I want to cover a basic example using SAS Viya REST APIs to download an image from a report in SAS Visual Analytics.

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Brian KinnebrewOctober 29, 2018 1

How to use CASL to develop and work with user-defined CAS actions

In addition to the many CAS actions supplied by SAS, as of SAS® Viya™ 3.4, you can create your own actions using CASL. Learn how in this post.

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