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I am currently working with a database provided by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety that consists of several fixed-width files. Each of these has an associated codebook that gives the internal variable name, a label of the variable, its data type, as well as the start column and the length of the fields for each column. To import the data sets into SAS, I could copy and paste part of that data into my INPUT and LABEL statements, but that gets tedious pretty fast when dealing with dozens of lines. And since I have multiple data sets like that, I didn’t really want to do it that way. In this post I show how a simple command-line script can be written to deal with this problem. ...

I have been using both SAS and Python extensively for a while now. With each having great features, it was very useful to combine my skills in both languages by seamlessly moving between SAS and Python in a single notebook. In the video below, fellow SAS intern Ariel Chien and I show how easy it is to connect the SAS and Python kernels using the open-source SASPy package together with SAS OnDemand for Academics. I hope you will also find that this adds to your workflow! ...

The Census Bureau has updated its population estimates for 2020 with county level data. This means any projects that have had to rely on the 2019 estimates can now switch to the 2020 estimates. ...

Git is a widely used version control system that allows users to track their software development in both public and private repositories. It is also increasingly used to store data in text formats, see for example the New York Times COVID-19 data set. This post will briefly demonstrate how to clone and pull updates from a GitHub repository using the git functions that are built into SAS Studio. ...