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Chris HemedingerJanuary 22, 2018 2

A Valentine challenge: express your <3 with SAS

Is it time to add SAS to the list of "romance" languages?*. It's no secret that there are enthusiastic SAS programmers who love the SAS language. So it only makes sense that sometimes, these programmers will "nerd out" and express their adoration for fellow humans by using the code that

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Sue MorrisonJanuary 19, 2018 0

Common annotate pitfalls and how to avoid them

The SAS/GRAPH® Annotate Facility is often viewed as a mysterious programming abyss that many SAS users do not wish to dive into, in part because of some not-so-obvious pitfalls that they might experience when using it. I view annotation as a frequently misunderstood and needlessly feared but powerful tool that

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerJanuary 10, 2018 1

How to code in Python with SAS 9.4

The SAS® platform is now open to be accessed from open-source clients such as Python, Lua, Java, the R language, and REST APIs to leverage the capabilities of SAS® Viya® products and solutions. You can analyze your data in a cloud-enabled environment that handles large amounts of data in a

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasDecember 21, 2017 4

Relative Period Report in SAS Visual Analytics

Another report requirement came my way and I wanted to share how to use our Visual Analytics’ out-of-the-box relative period calculations to solve it. Essentially, we had a customer who wanted to see a metric for every month, the previous month’s value next to it, and lastly the difference between

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanDecember 19, 2017 21

Running SAS programs in batch under Unix/Linux

While SAS program development is usually done in an interactive SAS environment (SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Display Manager, SAS Studio, etc.), when it comes to running SAS programs in a production or operations environment, it is routinely done in batch mode. Why run SAS programs in batch mode? First and

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Programming Tips

Kim WilsonDecember 18, 2017 2

What can compression do for you?

Compressing a data set is a process that reduces the number of bytes that are required to represent each observation in a file. You might choose to enable compression to reduce the storage requirements for the file and to lessen the number of I/O operations that are needed to read

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Carlos LaraDecember 12, 2017 4

PROC FREQ for Big Data

PROC FREQ is one of the most popular procedures in the SAS language. It is mostly used to describe frequency distribution of a variable or combination of variables in contingency tables. However, PROC FREQ has much more functionality than that. For an overview of all that it can do, see

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Jerry LeonardDecember 4, 2017 1

Controlling your formats

During my 35 years of using SAS® software, I have found the CNTLIN and CNTLOUT options in the FORMAT procedure to be among the most useful features that I routinely suggest to other SAS users. The CNTLIN option enables you to create user-defined formats from a SAS data set (input

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Juthika KharghariaNovember 28, 2017 1

Interacting with the results of PROC CAS

The CAS procedure (PROC CAS) enables us to interact with SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) from the SAS client based on the CASL (the scripting language of CAS) specification. CASL supports a variety of data types including INT, DOUBLE, STRING, TABLE, LIST, BLOB, and others. The result of a CAS

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberNovember 20, 2017 15

How to Emulate PROC APPEND in CAS

SAS Viya provides a robust, scalable, cloud-ready, distributed runtime engine. This engine is driven by CAS (Cloud Analytic Services), providing fast processing for many data management techniques that run distributive, i.e. using all threads on all defined compute nodes. Note: SAS Viya 3.5+ now supports the data set option APPEND=YES.

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