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Russ TyndallApril 20, 2018 0

How to expand the number of available SAS functions within the macro language

The %SYSFUNC macro function allows you to access most SAS® functions. In this blog post, I demonstrate how %SYSFUNC can help in your programming needs when a macro function might not exist. I'll also share the formatting feature that is built in to %SYSFUNC and introduce the %QSYSFUNC that masks the returned value.

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Steven SoberApril 18, 2018 0

How to Emulate DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS® Viya™

DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS Viya

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | Programming Tips

Andrew KramerMarch 29, 2018 0

Implicit SQL Pass-through to Hive in SAS Viya

With the release of SAS Viya 3.3, you now have the ability to pass implicit SQL queries to a variety of SQL data sources, including Hive. Here's what happens as users write SAS compliant SQL code.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerMarch 21, 2018 2

The many faces of HTML

Generating HTML output might be something that you do daily. After all, HTML is now the default format for Display Manager SAS output, and it is one of the available formats for SAS® Enterprise Guide®. In addition, SAS® Studio generates HTML 5.0 output as a default. The many faces of

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Data Management | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenMarch 16, 2018 0

SAS Data Studio Code Transform (Part 1)

SAS Data Studio is a new application in SAS Viya 3.3 that provides a mechanism for performing simple, self-service data preparation tasks to prepare data for use in SAS Visual Analytics or other applications. It is accessed via the Prepare Data menu item or tile on SAS Home. Note: A

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Lavanya MandavilliMarch 2, 2018 2

Is it sensitive? Mask it with data suppression

Report data shared by educational institutions, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and human resource departments can contain sensitive or confidential data. Data in such reports are suppressed selectively to protect the identities of individuals or to prevent the report’s audience from easily inferring individual values. The Data Suppression feature in SAS

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Jane EslingerFebruary 16, 2018 4

Efficiency at your fingertips: Keyboard macros and function keys

It is not laziness—it is efficiency!!! Programmers are often called lazy; we even call ourselves lazy. But we are not lazy, we are just being efficient. It makes no sense to type the same code over and over again or use more keystrokes than are absolutely necessary. Keyboard Macros You

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerFebruary 7, 2018 0

Creating a custom regional map in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4

By default, SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 supports country and state level polygons for regional geomaps. In SAS Visual Analytics 7.4, custom shape files are now supported, as well. This means that if a site has their own custom polygon data that defines custom regions, it’s possible to create a region

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Daria RostovtsevaJanuary 26, 2018 6

How to create custom regional maps in SAS Visual Analytics 8.2

Are you interested in using SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 to visualize a state by regions, but all you have is a county shapefile? As long as you can cross-walk counties to regions, this is easier to do than you might think. Here are the steps involved: Step 1 Obtain a

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 25, 2018 29

Let SAS write batch scripts for you

If Necessity is the mother of Invention, then, perhaps, the father of Automation is Laziness. Automation is all about convenience, comfort, and productivity. Why do it yourself if you can devise something to do it for you! In my previous post Running SAS programs in batch under Unix/Linux, we learned

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