Bugs on a Plane: Bad quotes & getting rid of character data

Little known fact (because, seriously, how would you know) , I write a lot of code while sitting on a plane and I can’t always connect to the Internet. NOT ALL QUOTATION MARKS ARE CREATED EQUAL Sometimes, when I copy and paste my code into SAS Studio, it doesn’t work. if compress(q23) = “3/4” then…

Fixing Data: Part 1 of a zillion – duplicate dates

I read a comment on line saying SAS probably would not disappear as an option for statistical analysis because “it’s good when you need to do a lot of data manipulation”. I wonder what world those people live in that data comes all cleanly packaged and whether they have unicorns there. Back on Planet Earth,…