SAS Support Communities

GenDemo · ‎06-17-2021

Ah Brilliant, thnx! I think you should have a banner at the top of the Community Page to link to the Slack channel.

GenDemo · ‎06-16-2021

yeah can do. I find the Slack community for dbt great. and they run Q&A sessions for their conferences through there as well. Its really cool.

GenDemo · ‎06-14-2021

Hi All I can't seem to find something like a Discord or Slack community for SAS - would anyone be interested in something like that?

GenDemo · ‎06-14-2021

Yeah I totally agree with you - but its a moot point. Python/R is free, so they said lets use that rather than having to pay money. So I suppose, to your question, they are happy with open-source software.

GenDemo · ‎06-10-2021

Hi All I know this is not a Python forum, but I am appealing to my fellow SAS users for advise, as I think you will understand what I mean and what I am after. I am very new to Python, but a veteran SAS & SQL user. My company doesn't want to dish out the money to get me a SAS licence, hence I am tying to learn Python. However, I am finding the data processing part of it immensely frustrating. This process is just highlighting to me (ONCE AGAIN) how awesome SAS (and SQL) is. Is there a way for me to do data processing in Python in a way which is similar to either SAS's data steps; or a SQL type query? For example, I have CSV files that I generate from out DB or BI Tool, and export to use in Python for regression or time series analysis. I need to import this CSV, format columns and dates, do date calculations, lag functions etc. Then I might need to join data sets together. From here I need to do plots and then the statistical modelling itself - the plotting and modelling I can do in Python (though its not at the level I would like as I am used to in SAS).Is R perhaps a better tool to do this in? can I do my data processing in R, in Python and still use Python for the modelling? i know this is a very open-ended and subjective question... but I'd greatly appreciate some advice.

GenDemo · ‎07-14-2020

no. Not that I am aware of. I tried updating the Virtualbox image and it said it couldnt overwrite the existing files. So I deleted the old image. Then when trying to load the new one, it said that there are still files from the previous instance that it can't update. So then I deleted that folder, and reloaded the image.

GenDemo · ‎07-13-2020

nope - nothing... ai jai jai... fortunately its not a train smash. Thnx for you help though.

GenDemo · ‎07-13-2020

When I updated The update on the home page wasn't working. So I followed the instructions on the support page to just re-download the file again. Then it didn't want to update the SAS UE I have in VirtualBox. So I deleted it. Perhaps this deleted my program files.

GenDemo · ‎07-13-2020

I think I saved it under this folder, and perhaps not the one on my local machine.

GenDemo · ‎07-13-2020

Hi Thnx for the reply. So I have that - but that only has my excel files that I output. I think my sas tables and programs was saved 'in' the VM? perhaps in a library there? I am not very well versed in the VM world.

GenDemo · ‎07-13-2020

Hi All So I just went through the first instance or updating my SAS University Edition. The instructions were very poor... so in Virtual Box, I deleted the old machine, and re-imported the newly downloaded one. Only to find that all my library links, programs and data is gone!!! Is there anyway to get this back?

GenDemo · ‎12-19-2019

Thnx for your reply. No the Program History feature does not do what I am looking for. I've read about the changed in EG8.2, but I've not seen it yet. So I'll have to wait for that then.

GenDemo · ‎12-15-2019

no that doesn't help...

GenDemo · ‎12-15-2019

@ChrisHemedinger Thnx for that. I have not seen EG8.2. Yes I imagined that you would be able to manage it with SAS code files that are not embessed in the project... but then you lose the benefit of having them in the project as a single file.

GenDemo · ‎12-11-2019

Hi Im a long time SAS coder, but new to this world of GIT. I've always used manual versioning to control my production code. But I see the use of this GIT tool with branching and code reviews - I'd really like to impliment this with my team using SAS EG. Though the article is really useful, it does not answer for me if you can use 3rd party clients like say SmartGIT (or others) with BitBucket to control your code changes. I have not watched the webinar, admittedly. I am aware of the built-in versioning/committing and diff tools in SAS. But is this tool is very limited and does not allow for code reviews. I would like to implement the development practice of creating branches, creating pull requests and code reviews for my team using SAS. Also, if you can do this, can you do this with EG and embedded SAS code files, or does it only with with Base SAS?