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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:22:19 EDT
Reply-To:     andrew parks <OPK@NIHCU.BITNET>
From:         andrew parks <OPK@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject:      DCSUG meeting September 15

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CONTENT:  Third Quarter DCSUG meeting announcement
SUMMARY:  Sept. 15, 1-4 pm at Commerce main auditorium
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E-ADDR:   opk@cu.nih.gov, opk@nihcu
NAME:     Andy Parks
PH/ADDR:  202-205-3250 / USITC / 500 E St SW Washington DC 20436
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The Washington DC SAS Users Group will hold it's third quarter general
meeting on Tuesday, September 15 in the main auditorium of the U.S.
Department of Commerce at 14th and Constitution from 1 to 4 pm.

Speakers:

    Paul Kent, ............................... A Taste of SQL
      SAS Institute

    Michael Raithel, ......................... Sources of SAS System
      Compute Associates                       Information under MVS


Judging from the discussion among SAS users on SAS-L as well the local
community, PROC SQL is one of the hottest topics around.  we've seen it
posed as a powerful and elegant alternative to data step and procedure
processing.  Paul Kent is probably the Institute's foremost authority on
PROC SQL, so we're looking forward to a very informative presentation.
This'll be a great chance to get an introduction to PROC SQL, and to
field your questions with *the* expert.

There is a lot of information that SAS generates as it executes.
Sometimes the printed output most of us expect really doesn't tell us
what we need to know.  Some of us have learned to look at their SAS job
logs, but how many of us use PROC CONTENTS, or can glean information
from the MVS job log?  Michael Raithel's presentation should be
beneficial for everyone, particularly those working in an MVS
environment.

We will also show the latest SAS News Video, which has highlights from
SUGI 17 in Hawaii.

As always, our meetings are open to all interested persons, and
admission is free.   We have made arrangements for interpreters for the
hearing impaired to be on hand.  Please contact me if you have any
special needs.

DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING: Parking is virtually nonexistent, so we
recommend you take the Metro.  Take the BLUE/ORANGE line to the Federal
Triangle station, walk down 12th Street to Constitution Avenue (toward
the Mall), turn right on Constitution and walk one block west to 14th
Street.  Cross 14th and turn right, walk a half a block to the main
entrance of the US Department of Commerce.  Show a government ID or sign
in, and follow signs to the auditorium.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:34:36 -0500
Reply-To:     flasar@WUGCRC.WUSTL.EDU
From:         flasar@WUGCRC.WUSTL.EDU
Subject:      Roomate wanted for MWSUG, 9/30 - 10/2
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Comments: cc: FLASAR@wugate.wustl.edu

Greetings:
    I will be attending the Midwest SAS User's Group meeting in Kansas City
the end of this month.  I currently have a room, but the price is a bit high,
so I'd like to see if there are any out ther who would like to share the price
of a room.
    Please respond via email, not the list.
       Dan Flasar
       Washington U School of Medicine
       St. Louis, MO
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:54:48 CDT
Reply-To:     Sean Dyer <sean@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
From:         Sean Dyer <sean@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
Subject:      Color problem with SAS under OS/2 V 2.0
Comments: To: sas-l@ohstvma.acs.ohio-state.edu

I recently talked to SAS inst. about a problem I've been having with video
in SAS under OS/2 V 2.0, and thought you all might want to file this away
for future reference.

Problem:  When SAS opens certain windows (especially in PROC BUILD) the
background and text colors are set to the same value and the color command
is unable to reset them.(In the case of my machine the color was set to a
blinding white).  The problem seems to appear pretty much at random, and
repeatedly invoking the offending window until the proper colors appear
temporarily fixes the problem.

Solution:  SAS inst. is aware of this, and says that it only occurs with
Version 2.0 of OS/2.  Since OS/2 V 2.0 is relatively new no permanent fixes
have been developed yet.  There are 2 workarounds:

  1.  Invoke SAS with the undocumented option $noaws.  This disables the
  aws in some way that is unclear to me and also seems to fix the problem.

  2.  Invoke SAS with the -awsdef 0 0 100 100 system option.  The awsdef
  option is documented in the OS/2 companion.  I haven't tried this because
  the $noaws was the preferred solution and it worked for me.  This is a
  possible alternative.

Note.  When using the $noaws option DO NOT PREFIX WITH -.
eg sas $noaws  NOT sas -$noaws


-Sean Dyer
-Division of Biostatistics
-Washington University, St. Louis MO
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:56:47 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Clark <CLARK@UWPG02.BITNET>
From:         Jim Clark <CLARK@UWPG02.BITNET>
Subject:      SQL again - Conflict between WHERE and OBS option

Hi

     I am working on some programs that eventually must work with somewhat
large (for me) files.  Unfortunately when I use the OBS= option, I get the
following error message from SQL.  Is there anyway around this limitation or an
alternative approach to restricting the number of records processed during
program devlepment.

Best Wishes
Jim

James M. Clark                  CLARK@UWPG02.BITNET  (note ZERO-TWO)
Department of Psychology        CLARK@UWPG02.UWINNIPEG.CA
University of Winnipeg          (204) 786-9359
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
R3B 2E9


53         proc sql;
54             select
55               max(dep), max(crs), max(sec), max(ins), 0, ., ., ., ., .,
max(n), mean(mn)
56               from freq
57               where qn<26
58               group by dep, crs, sec, ins;
ERROR: A where clause may not be used with the FIRSTOBS or the OBS data set
ERROR: A where clause may not be used with the FIRSTOBS or the OBS data set
ERROR: A where clause may not be used with the FIRSTOBS or the OBS data set
       options.
       options.
       options.
ERROR: PROC SQL runtime error for operation=sqxsrc.
ERROR: PROC SQL runtime error for operation=sqxsrc.
ERROR: PROC SQL runtime error for operation=sqxsrc.
NOTE: PROC SQL set option NOEXEC and will continue to check the syntax of
      statements.
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:03:00 CDT
Reply-To:     Sean Fahey <Y13SPF1@NIU.BITNET>
From:         Sean Fahey <Y13SPF1@NIU.BITNET>
Subject:      SAS 6.04 under OS/2 questions

Anyone have any recommendations for running PC SAS(6.04) under OS/2
2.0 in a Virtual DOS session?  The CDE command shows about 47k
available within SAS, are all the memory rules the same as under
straight DOS?  Does Proc Download utilize expanded memory or are
the number of variables allowed per data set limited to the
memory found by CDE.  Anyone given 6.06 (for OS2) a workout?

bye,
     Sean

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From: realliso@unity.ncsu.edu (Robert Allison)
Subject: line length - solution
Organization: North Carolina State University Project Unity
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:15:46 GMT

Thanks for all the replies to my question regarding 
long lines of data on Unix/SAS.

Several people responded with the tip "use the LRECL
option on the INFILE line".  Several people point out
that the SAS/Unix might assume a line length of < 256
unless you specify otherwise.

More interesting, though, is that my data file is *strange*.
When I look at it with cat, more, or vi (even with :set list
turned on) it looks like the following:

142010999000282574599........... (lots more numbers out to col 261)

And I would tend to want to use the following SAS program to
read it in..

data ser14;
infile  'ser14.88_10' lrecl=261;
   input
   sernum   $ 1-2
   year     $ 3-6
   age      $ 7-9
   totpop     10-21 etc, etc

-----------------------------------------------

But there must be some 'invisible' non-printing characters
that make me have to use the column positions that the 
Census publishes in their Record Layout that came with the
tape (which I should have believed and used in the first 
place, eh :)

The following code works fine..

data ser14;
infile  'ser14.88_10' lrecl=288;
   input
   sernum   $ 1-12
   year     $ 13-24
   age      $ 25-36
   totpop     37-48 etc, etc

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Does anyone know anything about these 'special characters' that
don't show up when I look at the data, but that do affect the 
column positions?

Thanks,
Robert Allison (realliso@unity.ncsu.edu)






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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:46:00 CST
Reply-To:     MARCUS@BIOST.BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU
From:         MARCUS@BIOST.BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU
Subject:      a question about transfering large sas data sets

I need advice as to how to transfer a very large SAS data set

Specs:

        The data set takes up about 57 megabytes.
        It was created using version 5.18 under the VMS operating system.
        It will be used by someone with an IBM/OS installation.


Problems:

        Receiver can not accept DAT tapes
        PROC COPY does not create datasets that are bigger than one tape
        so the dataset needs to be split up.

Does anyone know of an efficient way to transfer the data? I have tape
capabilites, but would rather not use more than 5.

My internet address is MARCUS@BIOST.BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU.

Thanks.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:08:02 EDT
Reply-To:     Howard Schreier <HIS@NIHCU.BITNET>
From:         Howard Schreier <HIS@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject:      WHERE & FIRSTOBS

CONTENT:  Comment
SUMMARY:  SQL WHERE and global SAS WHERE not same thing
REL/PLTF: 6.06+

> In all procs WHERE and OBS/FIRSTOBS are mutually exclusive.
> HOWEVER, look at the PROC SQL <options>; there is one to
> control the number of observations (I think) and the number
> of loops (essentially a "govenor" of sorts).

But,  the  SQL  WHERE  clause  and  the  SAS  WHERE  feature
(implemented  both  as a statement and as a data set option)
are two different things which just happen to share a name.

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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:03:00 EDT
Reply-To:     Chen Xi <CHENX@CUA.BITNET>
From:         Chen Xi <CHENX@CUA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Running out of space

From:   IN%"glg2@GTE.COM"  "Gail Gill" 26-AUG-1992 14:36:09.39
To:     IN%"CHENX@CU4300.CUA.EDU"  "Xi Chen"
CC:
Subj:   Running out of space

>Hello fellow sas-lers,
>  Once again a cry for help. I am trying to run a program without
>much success. I seem to be running into a problem with space,
>but when I run the program with a forked subprocess to show
>available space on the work disk, I find that I have 720 megabytes
>of space available. As you can tell below, I have dropped
>unnecessary variables from the data set, but am still unable to get
>anywhere. Are there any suggestions?
> I have included a portion of the program where it is blowing up.
>Thanks in advance for any and all help.

>Gail Gill
>glg2@gte.com

When you run SAS on VAX, the system will generate a lot of temporary files
which might be very large.  Generally, the files will be written into an area
called SYS$SCRATCH.  By general default, it is your disk area.  When the SAS
work terminates, success or fail, the temporary files will be deleted by the
system, and make the space to you.  It might be the reason that you saw you
have some space but SAS said you are out of quota.  I do not know if you have
a SCRATCH area supported on your system.  SCRATCH is generally a large area
and available to all the users on the first come first serve basis.  You need
to check it by SHOW LOGICAL *SCRATCH* to know the logical name of the SCRATCH,
then define your SYS$SCRATCH to the SCRATCH area.  Assume that the logical name
of the SCRATCH area on your machine is named DISK$SCRATCH, you can do it by
issuing
        $ASSIGN DISK$SCRATCH SYS$SCRATCH
or
        $DEFINE SYS$SCRATCH DISK$SCRATCH
Generally, it will solve many problems like yours.  If your program fill up the
Scratch, it is definately something wrong with your program, since the length
of your output file will not be reasonable.  Hope it helps.

Chen Xi
User Consultant
The Catholic University of America
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:14:00 EDT
Reply-To:     Sally Muller <UNCSM1@UNC.BITNET>
From:         Sally Muller <UNCSM1@UNC.BITNET>
Subject:      SUNVIEW SAS/GRAPH Drivers available

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SUMMARY:  SAS/GRAPH SUNVIEW drivers now available
REL/PLTF: 6.07 SUN/OS
E-ADDR:   uncsm1@unc.bitnet
NAME:     Sally Muller
PH/ADDR:  919-962-6501  OIT CB#3455, UNC, Chapel Hill NC 27514
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Hi All!
Peter Ruzsa from SI just sent us a SUN diskette containing the
SAS/GRAPH driver modules and device catalog entries for SUNVIEW
drivers for release 4.0 of SUN/OS on SUN4 systems (experimental
release).

I. Diskette Contents
   1. A README file with installation instructions
   2. A driver module named sasgdpix.
   3. A device catalog named devices.sct01

You can order the free diskette from SAS Institute (919 677-8008)
OR you can get the files from a NEW service on our campus. Paul
Jones, a person associated with service, sent me a description
which I greatly condensed:

UNC OIT-CS has been selected by SUN Microsystems to participate
in a project which began as an ftp site but now also includes
WAIS access. We will also be experimenting with Gopher and
World-Wide Web during the project's life.  We have set up a
SunSite.unc.edu to provide ftp and wais services immediately.

               Paul Jones
               Paul_Jones@unc.edu

To access SunSite via ftp:
ftp sunsite.unc.edu
login: anonymous

The SUNVIEW files are in the directory: /pub/SAS/SUNVIEW.
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From: aboltwoo@alfred.carleton.ca (Alana Boltwood)
Subject: Does SAS do Bartlett's test for homoscedasticity?
Summary: I can't find it in the manuals but it would be nice
Keywords: Bartlett's test, homoscedasticity
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:29:32 GMT

I would like to do Bartlett's test for homoscedasticity (equality of
variance) in SAS/STAT.  It's useful for checking the equal-variance
assumption of regression and ANOVA, and I was surprised that I
couldn't find it in the manuals.  It could be done semi-manually by
outputting group variances from PROC MEANS and computing the test stat
in a DATA step, but I would like to do it automatically.

Does anyone know a SAS PROC that does this test?  Thanks.


Alana Boltwood (aboltwoo@ccs.carleton.ca)
undergraduate student
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:13:09 CET
Reply-To:     Arnold Schick <SCHICK@DMRHRZ11.BITNET>
From:         Arnold Schick <SCHICK@DMRHRZ11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: A way to NAME and DESCribe pictures from GREPLAY ??
Comments: To: Frank Poppe <POPPE@SWOV.NL>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:28:00 +0100 Frank Poppe said:
>
>CONTENT:  Question
>SUMMARY:  I'd like to NAME and DESCribe the pictures generated with GREPLAY
>REL/PLTF: All SAS-L
>
>...
>I want to give them more meaningfull names (i.e. meaningfull to me ;-).
>
>I tried
> treplay 1:myname 2:other / name="newname" ;
>but options are not allowed.

Try please number of graph/template with NAME parameter without quotes
on MODIFY statement after producing group of graph through GREPLAY, and
use then multiple MODIFY statements,

    i.e.       modify  1/name=newone des="Group of Some" ;
               modify  2/name=newtoo ;


Arnold Schick  University of Marburg/Germany

P.S. Michael Friendly sent me this solution month ago as I had the same
     question.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:45:38 MDT
Reply-To:     Joe Olsen <FHSJAOM@VM.BYU.EDU>
From:         Joe Olsen <FHSJAOM@VM.BYU.EDU>
Subject:      Plotting Bivariate Normal Eliptical Contours

Has anyone written a SAS macro to generate and plot elipical
contours for the bivariate normal density function based on the
means, standard deviations, and correlation coefficient for a pair
of variables?  This is discussed in Donald Morrison's "Applied
Linear Statistical Methods" (1983, pp. 24-25).  I would eventually like
to be able to overlay the elipse associated with various bivariate
densities (i.e. 5%, 1%, .1%) on a scatter plot of the actual data.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

--Joe

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Joseph A. Olsen                         FHSJAOM@BYUVM
Social Science Computing                FHSJAOM@VM.BYU.EDU
Brigham Young University                (801)378-6296
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:07:43 EST
Reply-To:     LYCACC@RITVM.BITNET
From:         LYCACC@RITVM.BITNET
Subject:      solutions to dup records

Thanks to all who responded!
Two easy solutions were suggested by Tom Abernathy and Kernon Gibes.
Both worked, however, Tom's suggestion requires a proc sort; by _all_;
and I got a "Too many variables defined for the sortby list" for one
of my big file.  Does anyone know the limit of the sortby list?
And by the way, both methods worked with view as well as data set.
Thank you very much.

Lo-yi
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 08:55:01 EST
Reply-To:     "D. Glen McPherson" <mcphers@HILBERT.MATHS.UTAS.EDU.AU>
From:         "D. Glen McPherson" <mcphers@HILBERT.MATHS.UTAS.EDU.AU>
Subject:      commercial use of education networks

The use of educationally based electronic mail links for advertising purposes
is more than a matter of inconvenience to subscribers. So far as I am aware,
the Australian government pays the cost of providing the overseas electronic
mail link for Australian universities under the strict condition that the
link not be used for commercial purposes. Those subscribers who are using
the global networks for free advertising are jepordising this situation.
So far as can recall, it has only been US subscribers who have advertised.
Perhaps there is an arrogance in the US that it would not matter much if the
rest of the world was not heard or spoken to, but I, for one, feel that these
links we have now established have enriched the areas in which I work.
I have great sympathy for those who are in need of employment, in need of
people with special skills, or university departments who have equipment to
sell to provide them with much needed income. However, are there not other
avenues you could use?

Glen McPherson


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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:53:18 EST
Reply-To:     LYCACC@RITVM.BITNET
From:         LYCACC@RITVM.BITNET
Subject:      more on dup records

Thanks for the response so far.
I forgot to mention that these are duplicate records, not duplicate keys.
The data set could have more than 100 fields, I really don't want to
IF FIRST....

Lo-yi
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:19:31 LCL
Reply-To:     RIKARD@VCUMVS.BITNET
From:         RIKARD@VCUMVS.BITNET
Subject:      Date intervals

Content: Request for help
Summary: Date functions
Release and platform: All
Name:    Pete Rikard
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Real Addresses:Virginia Commonwealth University, Computer Center
               110 S. 7th Street, 4th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219
               Phone (804) 786-4828    FAX: (804) 371-8464
******************************************************************
 Not to be incredibly offensive, but RTFM.

 In the SAS V6 reference manual, following the discussion of the
 INTCK function is the discussion of the INTNX function. The INTNX
 function generates a SAS date, time, datetime, value that is a
 given number of time intervals from a starting value.

 We would all like to learn everything by osmosis, plug into
 the manual and instantly know it all. But you have to have the
 basic reference manuals to use SAS or any other product.

 This information is also in the V5 Basics and in the Help
 system interactively.
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From: realliso@unity.ncsu.edu (Robert Allison)
Subject: graphing dots on maps
Organization: North Carolina State University Project Unity
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:38:01 GMT

I would like to graph population on a US map divided 
into states.

But instead of the normal bar graph or shading, I would
like to have a dot represent 1000 people.  Each state would
be filled with a quantity of dots (fairly evenly spread
over the state) that represents the population.

I'm running SAS 6.07 on DECstations.  We have SAS/GRAPH and
the maps library.

Sample code or reference to a praticular manual would be
particularly useful!  

TIA,
Robert Allison (realliso@uniy.ncsu.edu)

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