SAS

SAS 9.2 CHAR to NUM
Hello all, Does 9.2 offer any better way to convert CHAR vars to NUM than the old PUT() method? I ask b/c I have a large number of vars to convert and they are presently in the correct order (VARNUM) in the data set? ... 20 Feb 2010 10:11

laptop recommendation
Hello, I hope to have a laptop dedicated to SAS/Matlab calculations with 30GB of data. Will you recommend the best possible spec or machine? Also will you recommend the second best with a reasonable budget? ... 20 Feb 2010 06:56

Robust standard errors in Zero inflated regression models
I am using National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) for my analysis. I have used Proc Genmod and Repeated Subject statement to obtain robust standard errors in Poisson and negative binomial regression It would be really helpful if somebody can please tell me about the STATEMENT AND SYNTAX to be used to obta... 19 Feb 2010 23:17

Scope of Macro Functions
No idea why you'd want to do it that way, but isn't that what SYMGET does? -Joe On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Kirby, Ted <ted.kirby(a)lewin.com> wrote: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why SYMGET works (i.e., increments the "newcomplines" variables), but %EVAL does not in the following examples: ... 20 Feb 2010 00:22

Issue with filename pipe and SAS shortcut.
> From: Collin Elliot Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 6:08 PM Subject: Issue with filename pipe and SAS shortcut. I'm not sure if this is for someone with expertise in filename pipe or systems architecture, but I'm hoping that among the geniuses on this listserv there is someone who can help me. ... 25 Feb 2010 06:56

select first obs for string
Sorry, that code is DATA TMP; SET ioc.panc_a; retain flag; new_group = group; if first.key then do; flag = new_group; end; else do; new_group = flag; end; run; ... 22 Feb 2010 11:50

Permuted Block Randomization with PROC PLAN
Hi everyone, I have been trying to generate a randomization schedule for permuted- block randomization schedule and am having no luck with PROC PLAN. I did it manually before, but was hoping for simplification. I am looking to assign 60 patients in a randomized trial to two treatments (1 and 2). The plan calls... 20 Feb 2010 09:06

Proc report line statement - Print footnotes on page 1
Hi All, I am trying to print the footnotes (ten) on page 1. I am using the following code. Questions is: 1) I do not want the column names printed on page 1, 2) Is there any better way to present two columns, 10 lines of text on page 1. compute before _page_ / style={just=l protectspecialchars=off}; if ... 19 Feb 2010 15:30

Weird problem with ODS PDF - searching within PDF doesn't work
Hi All, I've got a weird problem, which might be SAS 9.2 (windows) only. I output a PDF file (using ODS PDF), then I search in the PDF using find, in either acrobat reader or a 3rd party reader. But I don't find what I'm looking for. Specifically, if I search for "Q" (without speech marks) I find lower case d.... 19 Feb 2010 14:22

Input matrix for PROC PRINCOMP
SAS-Lers: I rarely use PROC PRINCOMP, but a colleague has asked me to use it for PCA.= I have a matrix of Nei's distances for the genotypes I want to analyze. = Can I use a distance matrix directly as the input to PROC PRINCOMP or do I = need to convert it to a similarity matrix first? Documentation I have sa... 19 Feb 2010 13:14