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Russ TyndallJune 16, 2017 2

Using parameters within the macro facility

Have you ever written a macro and wondered if there was an easy way to pass values to the macro? You can by using macro parameters. Macro parameters enable you to pass values into the macro at macro invocation, and set default values for macro variables within the macro definition.

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Leonid BatkhanJune 6, 2017 13

Combine and conquer with SAS

The ancient political maxim “divide and conquer” (Lat. “dīvide et īmpera”) has been used for millennia in politics, sociology, and psychology, mainly to manipulate people. In the last two centuries, however, this principle has also been adopted by computer science. It is widely used in computer programming, primarily in computer

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerJune 5, 2017 0

The new Data Pane in SAS Visual Analytics - It's painless!

Refining your data for effective reports is even easier in the 8.1 release of SAS Visual Analytics. In this blog post, I’ll take a look at the data pane, how it displays data from your active data source, and a few tasks that you might want to perform, such as

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Teri PatsilarasJune 1, 2017 0

Cascading Prompts as Report and Page Prompts in SAS Visual Analytics

There are several exciting new features available in SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 that I know will excite you; this blog will show you how you can now configure cascading prompts for the Report Prompt and Page Prompt areas! Prior to SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 there was a way to use parameters to configure cascading prompts for

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Warren F. KuhfeldMay 30, 2017 0

The BEST D formats that you have ever seen!

The Dw.p format displays numeric values, in a field w positions wide, possibly with a great range of values, lining up decimals for values of similar magnitude. The BESTDw.pformat combines the BESTw. format for integers and the Dw.p format for nonintegers. Specifying BESTDw.p (where p = w - 1) is better than specifying BESTw. for columns, since decimals do not shift when the last digit is 0.

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Jody CarltonMay 19, 2017 1

Demystifying and resolving common transcoding problems

Technical Support regularly receives incoming calls from customers who have encountered the following transcoding warning: WARNING: Some character data was lost during transcoding in the data set xxx.xxx. Either the data contains characters that are not representable in the new encoding or truncation occurred during transcoding People are not always

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Lavanya MandavilliMay 4, 2017 1

Linking to target reports and sections in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4

SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 comes chock-full of new features. Report and section linking come with an added benefit. If you set up linking from one section to another section in the same report, or from one report to another report, you have the option to configure linking such that any filter

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanApril 27, 2017 8

Automating the loading of multiple database tables into SAS tables

When developing SAS applications, you can feed database tables into your application by using the libname access engine either by directly referring a database table, or via SAS or database views that themselves refer to one or more of the database tables. More on Automation with SAS: Let SAS write

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Martin MinceyApril 21, 2017 19

Use SAS to send an email that embeds a graph in the body of the email

When using the SAS® system to email graphics output, a common request is to use SAS to send an email in which the graphics output is embedded in the body of the email. This functionality is not available until the second maintenance release for SAS® 9.4 (TS1M2). If you are

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Leonid BatkhanApril 13, 2017 39

One deadly sin SAS programmers should stop committing

Even if you are a traditional SAS programmer and have nothing to do with cybersecurity, you still probably have to deal with this issue in your day-to-day work. The world has changed, and what you do as a SAS programmer is not just between you and your computer anymore. However,

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