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ERROR: This range is repeated, or values overlap: – .

September 15, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

This is another posting in an occasional series on SAS error and warning messages that aren’t as clear as they’d need to be. What produced the message was my creation of a control data set that I then wished to [...]

Creating waterfall plots in SAS using PROC GCHART

March 17, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Recently, I needed to create a waterfall plot couldn’t use PROC SGPLOT since it was incompatible with publishing macros that use PROC GREPLAY on the platform that I was using; SGPLOT doesn’t generate plots in SAS catalogs but directly creates [...]

Creating a Data Set Containing Confidence Intervals Using PROC UNIVARIATE

September 5, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

While you could generate data sets containing means and confidence intervals using PROC SUMMARY or PROC MEANS, curiosity and the need to verify a program using a different technique were what drove me to consider using PROC UNIVARIATE for the [...]

Using ODS Graphics to Create Plots Using PROC LIFETEST

September 3, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the nice things about SAS 9.2 is that creation of statistical graphics is enhanced using ODS. One of the beneficiaries of this is PROC LIFETEST, a procedure that gained a lot when data sets could be created from [...]

On Making PROC REPORT Work Harder

September 1, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

In the early years of my SAS programming career, there seemed to be just the one procedure to use if you wanted to create a summary table. That was TABULATE and it was great for generating columns according to the [...]