Comments on: SAS lag problems http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/ I'm a biologist not a... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Getting Help with SAS :: Dammit Jim! http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-16629 Getting Help with SAS :: Dammit Jim! Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:01:39 +0000 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-16629 [...] was some discussion in one of my SAS posts about where to find SAS help and communities. It seemed like a pretty useful [...] [...] was some discussion in one of my SAS posts about where to find SAS help and communities. It seemed like a pretty useful [...]

]]> By: ScottS-M http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-15358 ScottS-M Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:47:14 +0000 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-15358 @Kelly LeVoyer Thanks a lot for stopping by. It's really cool to see SAS staff involved in user discussions. I think I'll throw all this 'where to find help' into a quick post in the next couple days to make it easier for people to find. @Kelly LeVoyer
Thanks a lot for stopping by. It’s really cool to see SAS staff involved in user discussions. I think I’ll throw all this ‘where to find help’ into a quick post in the next couple days to make it easier for people to find.

]]> By: Kelly LeVoyer http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-15278 Kelly LeVoyer Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:46:48 +0000 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-15278 SAS employee here...There's also www.sascommunity.org though admittedly it's still getting off the ground. If you haven't already you might want to check out Chris Hemedinger's blog http://blogs.sas.com/sasdummy/ (not to imply you're a dummy ;) but it's a good basic resource as well, feel free to comment there with questions. Chris co-authored the SAS For Dummies book. SAS employee here…There’s also http://www.sascommunity.org though admittedly it’s still getting off the ground. If you haven’t already you might want to check out Chris Hemedinger’s blog http://blogs.sas.com/sasdummy/ (not to imply you’re a dummy ;) but it’s a good basic resource as well, feel free to comment there with questions. Chris co-authored the SAS For Dummies book.

]]> By: SAS Macros: Letting SAS Do the Typing :: Dammit Jim! http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-15115 SAS Macros: Letting SAS Do the Typing :: Dammit Jim! Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:09:47 +0000 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-15115 [...] on using macros in SAS to complement my previous post on macro variables for quite a while. Luckily Norwegian guy reminded me about the pain of starting programming in SAS and provided me some motivation. So [...] [...] on using macros in SAS to complement my previous post on macro variables for quite a while. Luckily Norwegian guy reminded me about the pain of starting programming in SAS and provided me some motivation. So [...]

]]> By: ScottS-M http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-14024 ScottS-M Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:01:09 +0000 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-lag-problems/#comment-14024 Glad you got it working. No problem letting off steam (and that was pretty mild steam). I remember my first half year or so was filled with expletives. I tend to bang my head against the wall until I solve things (or switch to another language for the problem) so I don't really frequent any forums. There are the <a href="http://support.sas.com/forums/index.jspa" rel="nofollow">official SAS forums</a> although they don't seem to have a category for basic questions and there's the <a href="http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46854" rel="nofollow">Usenet group</a> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.sas/about" rel="nofollow">comp.soft-sys.sas</a>. Also in the real world, our university had a nice 2-day SAS course on macros which would have been great for a beginner and I also occasionally get emails from a <a href="http://support.sas.com/usergroups/" rel="nofollow">SAS user group</a> in the area. Also for macro variables there's my (rather poor) <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-macros/" rel="nofollow">introduction</a> and now that you mention it I'll try to get a post up about using macros in the next few days <ins datetime="2007-11-06T06:57:55+00:00">(<i>Edit</i>: Now available <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/sas-macros-letting-sas-do-the-typing/" rel="nofollow">here</a>)</ins>. Glad you got it working. No problem letting off steam (and that was pretty mild steam). I remember my first half year or so was filled with expletives.

I tend to bang my head against the wall until I solve things (or switch to another language for the problem) so I don’t really frequent any forums. There are the official SAS forums although they don’t seem to have a category for basic questions and there’s the Usenet group comp.soft-sys.sas. Also in the real world, our university had a nice 2-day SAS course on macros which would have been great for a beginner and I also occasionally get emails from a SAS user group in the area.

Also for macro variables there’s my (rather poor) introduction and now that you mention it I’ll try to get a post up about using macros in the next few days (Edit: Now available here).

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