The SAS Bookshelf

SAS author's tip: Using PROC MEANS to create a data set containing summary information

Shelly Goodin — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:17:10 +0000

This week's SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his latest book Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. Learn more about this esteemed user and his many bestselling SAS books--as well as get additional bonus content on his author page. The following excerpt is from [...]

Top 3 reasons to learn PROC TEMPLATE

Aimee Rodriguez — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:31:19 +0000

We’re just coming back from SAS Global Forum, and what a show! SAS Books was there to provide users with the highest-quality resources for learning SAS, and our users were there to tell us what new books they were most looking forward to reading. Kevin Smith's PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy: [...]

Wearing two hats at SAS Global Forum

Kathy Council — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:16:09 +0000

The annual conference in SAS Francisco is now a pleasant memory. And what a pleasant one it was! I saw so many of my user friends and met some new ones too. When I attend this conference I wear at least two hats. The first is that of a SAS [...]

SAS author's tip: SAS/ACCESS interface to PC Files

Shelly Goodin — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:52 +0000

This week's SAS tip is from Frederick Pratter and his handy book Web Development with SAS by Example, Third Edition. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you've probably noticed that this book is frequently excerpted. There's just so much to choose from! View Pratter's previously featured tips here. The [...]

The business of book writing: Developing the concept with Chris Holland and Jack Shostak

Shelley Sessoms — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:30:31 +0000

Developing a new concept for a book can be daunting, but it can also be very rewarding. Think about The Little SAS Book. I bet Susan Slaughter and Lora Delwiche didn’t know they were stumbling on a huge hit when they created that format. I love to see authors create [...]

New programs, new products, new opportunities

Sean Gargan — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:51:56 +0000

These activities may have been announced at SAS Global Forum, but they apply to a much broader audience! And you can take advantage of them today. New Program: Publications is pleased to announce that you can now use Training Points to buy books. Training Points (previously known as EPTO's) is [...]

SAS Server Pages: Generating Dynamic Content

Don Henderson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:39:30 +0000

SAS Server Pages were first introduced in Building Web Applications with SAS/IntrNet: A Guide to the Application Dispatcher using a DATA step to process them. PROC STREAM provides more robust support for SAS Server Pages and significantly expands SAS’ facilities for dynamic content generation. SAS Server Pages are the Lego [...]

Jazzing up the ODS DOCUMENT statement

Michael Tuchman — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:15:58 +0000

PROC DOCUMENT is one of the niftier tools in SAS. To get the most benefit out of it, you need to create a workflow that makes saving your work to the document effortless. This post discusses some things that can help you get more out of PROC DOCUMENT. It will [...]

The whys and hows of simulating data

Rick Wicklin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:36:44 +0000

When I told a friend that the title of my new book is Simulating Data with SAS, she asked, “Why would anyone want to simulate data?” To her, data are measured or surveyed. Data tell us how big, how often, and how many. Data indicate people’s opinions about politics and [...]

Headed to SAS Global Forum

Kathy Council — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:13:37 +0000

It’s that time of year again, where I make my plans to head to SAS Global Forum. This year, the meeting is in San Francisco and, since I love this city, it makes me more excited than ever to meet with SAS friends. This user conference is planned and organized [...]