PhilaSUG (Philadelphia Area SAS Users Group) is a non-profit professional organization whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, increased knowledge of SAS® software, and professional advancement. Through the generous support of the SAS Institute [http://www.sas.com], PhilaSUG members enjoy once a year a speaker from SAS Institute, mailing of our newsletter and four books for door prizes. PhilaSUG also participates in the Speaker Exchange Program of the NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG [http://www.nesug.org]). These national and regional groups are able to bring us speakers from outside the Philadelphia area to speak on a variety of topics. In addition, speakers from our own area contribute their expertise, so PhilaSUG meetings always offer a stimulating mix of ideas. PhilaSUG holds three meetings annually (see the calendar of events ) and provides a published newsletter to its members. PhilaSUG Table of Contents [with date last updated]: Call for Papers for the Fall 2013 meeting is now open. [May 5, 2013] Calendar of Events [May 5, 2013] The Spring Newsletter is now available
Location:	West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Sykes Student Union 110 W. Rosedale Avenue West Chester, PA 19383 (GPS: 39.9505492, -75.5961401)
Date:	Wednesday, June 12, 2013

[May 4, 2013]

Important - In order to obtain an accurate food count we are asking all attendees to please complete the Meeting Attendee Sign-up Form.

Membership [Jan 22, '10]

PhilaSUG-L [Jun 8, '02]

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) [Jan 22, '10]

Archive of Past Newsletters [Sept 1, 2012]

Archive of Paper Presentations [Sept 1, 2012]

Executive Committee Members Oct 22, 2011]

Policy on recruiting at meetings [Oct 22. 09]

Position Referral Binders Available at Meetings [Jan 16, 2011]

Employment Opportunities

SAS-L discussion group

Philadelphia Area Tourist Information:

Delaware Valley CDISC Users' Network [Inactive]

SAS® Software WebRing

To automatically receive e-mail notification whenever this Web page changes         it's private    by ChangeDetection PhilaSUG-L is a very low volume Internet mail announcement list (Yahoo Group) devoted to interests of our PhilaSUG members. This is an opt-in service. That means if you would like to receive e-mail meeting announcements send an e-mail to PhilaSUG-L-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Also of Interest:

Links to selected SAS resources on the Web

sasCommunity Tip of the Day - May 5

When multiple dataset options are applied to a single statement, then the order of execution matters. The rule of thumb is that they are executed according to the lexicographical(alphabetical) order of their names. That is, a drop option is executed before a keep, and a keep before a rename. A logical consequence is that you have to use the old (before being renamed) variable names in your keep and drop options. Another is that you cannot keep a variable, if dropped. Now, given also that the variable number is decided by the order of first-appearance in the data step, can you guess the output of the code snippet below? The answer can be found in the discussion page. data one; set sashelp.class(rename=(name=eman) keep=age sex name drop=age); run;   /* check */ proc contents data=one varnum; run; Submitted by Chang Y. Chung.

Rick Langston talks about SAS 9.3

Resources to help you learn and use SAS by UCLA Academic Technology Services

Product Documentation

What's New in SAS SAS 9.3 SAS 9.2 [1.97 MB PDF download] SAS 9.2 [1.97 MB PDF download] SAS 9.1 SAS 8.2

Key Highlights of SAS^® 9.2

Visit the SAS 9.2 resource page for an overview of product enhancements as well as a list of related documentation and references. SAS 9.2 brings more analytical products and graphical capabilities to Base SAS as well as updates to other products such as SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/CONNECT and others. Many enhancements are a direct response to requests from our existing customer base.

To read more about SAS 9.2, use the following links:

• New Software Offerings Introduced in SAS 9.2
• Foundation SAS Enhancements in SAS 9.2
• Reporting, Data Integration, and Analytics Enhancements in SAS 9.2
• Installing, Configuring, and Migrating to SAS 9.2
• Maintenance and Upgrades
• The third maintenance for SAS 9.2 is now available. Read more about SAS 9.2 (TS2M3).
• SAS 9.2 overview content has been updated with the latest release information.
• The most current release of SAS software is SAS 9.2. For information about product and system release numbers, read SAS 9.2 Provides New Product-Specific Release Numbers.
• SAS Product pages is a resource that offers a one-stop shop for documentation, samples, training and news about a specific product. This information span the two most recent releases of SAS software. To access the product-specific information, locate your product in the A-Z listing and explore what support.sas.com has to offer.
• The Hot Fix site has been updated for SAS 9.2 TS2MO and later. To find out more about the changes, read Important Changes to Hot Fixes.

Learn how to add text between the output in an ODS HTML file.

The ODS TEXT= statement is used to insert text into an output file. When using this statement with SAS® 9.1.3, you must give the output destination (such as HTML, PDF, RTF, and so on), for example, ODS HTML TEXT='text-string'. When using this statement with SAS 9.2, however, you do not have to specify the output destination, for example, ODS TEXT='text-string'. Learn more

Ten Reasons Why a Statistician Should Update to SAS® 9.2

Now that the full release of SAS 9.2 is available, many sites are making decisions about when to install this new release. Here are the top ten reasons why we think that statisticians should update to SAS 9.2 right awa Why should you upgrade?

SAS Communities

SAS Technology Report Tips Archive

Count Words, Specific Characters, Specific Substrings within a Text String    »

Beginning with SAS 9.1.3 there are new functions that can be used to count specific characters, specific substrings, and words in a string.
COUNT, COUNTC, and COUNTW were added to the BASE Functions in SAS 9.1.3. However, COUNTW is not documented in the 9.1.3 online documentation. It is in 9.2

COUNT will count the number of times a specific substring appears within a character string. Caution: If two occurrences of the specified substring overlap in the string, inconsistent results will be returned. For example, COUNT('boobooboo', 'booboo') might return a 1 or a 2.

COUNTC will count the number of times a specific character appears within a character string.

COUNTW will count the number of words that appear within a character string.

Sorting Text Without Regard to Case in SAS 9.2    »

PROC SORT is a frequently used Base SAS procedure with simple syntax. Unfortunately, anomalies in the key variables, especially mixed case character values, can present special challenges. Sort them out with this tip.

SAS Discussion User Forums

Get the Latest News from SAS!

SAS Institute Training Opportunities in the Local Area:

Wayne, PA (Near Philadelphia)
Philadelphia's SAS Public Course Schedule
Bedminster, NJ (20 miles northwest of New Brunswick)
Courses Available in Bedminster, NJ
Check out the SAS Complete Course List (