Our Fall Meeting is set for Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 3-6pm (registration at 2:30pm). The VENUE has CHANGED for THIS MEETING!!! We will be meeting at the Chair’s workplace (120 Corporate Woods, Suite 350 (behind Phillip’s European Restaurant).
It should be a great meeting as we have Jason Secosky giving us PART DEUX – A SAMPLER OF WHAT’S NEW IN SAS® 9.2 — This presentation will highlight new features in DATA step, Macro, and ODS, and show how coding with SAS is easier than ever with SAS 9.2. Key topics include:
- Uses for PROC FCMP
- A procedure for writing functions with DATA step source
- Secure stored macros
- Small, yet significant additions to DATA step
- The pre-production DATA step/ODS interface for custom reporting
Our own Bill Csont (GVSUG executive committee member) will give a talk entitled “Panning for Gold: Nuggets of Helpful SAS® Code”
Examples in this presentation include:
- use of a colon modifier to delete temporary datasets,
- special use of the sum function for contiguous variables,
- importing of a Microsoft Excel worksheet through use of DDE, a many to many merge that is performed using a data step
- a method printing placeholder output to the output window when a dataset has no values.
Additional Details to follow next week ………………… Stay tuned …………………………………….
Joseph Guido, Chair
Thu, Oct 8, 2009