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Why do people use ODS OUTPUT instead of OUT= option? 5 168 (1/8/2010 11:05:20 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have noticed an increase in post of people using ODS OUTPUT to generate datasets of things that SAS already outputs as datasets. Is there some advantage to use ODS OUTPUT instead of the options for output... Tom

system option GENERIC/NOGENERIC 1 31 (10/2/2009 8:43:31 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Does anyone know what the option GENERIC does? SAS showed me that I can use OPTION GENERIC to turn off these warning messages: NOTE: Data file TEST.ONE.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or t... Tom

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using 'NOT' in %EVAL 7 30 (9/20/2010 9:46:15 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I cannot find anything in the documentation and would think that 'NOT' should work since 'LT' and 'GE' and other mnemonic operators work fine. When I don't use 'NOT' it works fine but when I include 'NOT' I ke... theorbo (12)

Double quotes in a let statment 8 148 (9/23/2010 1:08:10 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas the folowing is correct and works %let GBCoordSys=CoordSys Earth Projection 8, 79, ""m"", -2, 49, 0.9996012717, 400000, -100000; however it generates a note not liking the "" NOTE: Line generated by t... Eli

Populating Cells 3 203 (9/24/2010 4:25:54 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have a long-term, large-scale dataset in which birds are surveyed in a grid pattern. This dataset contains bird counts per cell. However, if a bird is not observed in a cell this cell is not included in th... miimes1

Creating a composite variable out of several 3 305 (9/27/2010 4:38:18 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Dear All: I have 4 variables(all in 0/1) that I want to create one variable out of. I want to use the 1st variable when it available, if not, i use the 2nd and so on. Data have; input ID ks d4 p3 sd... Yaw

TIME ZONE 4 17 (10/3/2010 2:38:57 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Anyone know how to retrive the time zone from the server in DI studio? ... sasulf

Import large binay file with variable record length 3 26 (10/5/2010 2:53:13 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi all, I am trying to import a large undelimited binary file into several sas datasets. The file has two types of data: float records (4 bytes) and string records (80 bytes) and it includes some information ab... noa.alvarez (2)

Cannot use year function in DATETIME18. format column 2 198 (10/13/2010 7:58:22 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have a column with a DATETIME18. format. I want extract the year value of that column. However, the new colume(year) is null when I use the year function. How can I solve the problem? ... litonchen

help with proc sql subgroup count (2nd attempt) 3 424 (3/23/2011 11:50:32 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas posted this previously, the solution offered does not work. have a dataset that looks like this, about 100,000 rows of unique data vendor is a unique 6 digit numeric and dte is the date of processing as ... mark

Proc Freq and formats question 3 311 (3/24/2011 10:18:05 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Is there any way to format proc freq output in comma12. if all the vars are character? Proc tabulate allows you to use format= option!!! proc freq data=file; title 'How many records were there?'; table... OoStatmasteroO

insert an image using ods listing 2 29 (3/31/2011 5:42:01 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas how to insert an image in output when using ods listing,i know in ods rtf. ... stat.raju16 (38)