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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:46:11 +0000

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Aprenda a usar o SAS | fernandohrosa.com.br — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:33:52 +0000

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By: Sandro Saitta

Sandro Saitta — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:42:14 +0000

@Gaurav: Thanks for your comment! I’m surprised about the support, they were quite helpful in my case.

By: Gaurav Vohra

Gaurav Vohra — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:57:02 +0000

I recently got the evaluation version of world programming system. I had some initial problems understanding how to import excel files into WPS. The WPS support team did not provide any help.
Once I got past the initial hurdle, I have got good results. I deal with small data sets and am using WPS for training students and professionals. Hence speed is not an issue for me.
I tried a number of procs and got identical results as with SAS.
I am going to continue my evaluation over the next week and post results on my blog.

By: Sandro Saitta

Sandro Saitta — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:24:47 +0000

@Mahesh: yes, you can do that. This is the usual way of doing since WPS cannot update .sas7bdat files. You should ask WPS support if you can’t (they are very good).

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:25:09 +0000

To Add to Krishna’s Questions. Is it possible to read or convert sas7bdat files (created using SAS 9.2 or above) into Native WPS(WPD) format.

we have been getting error when we do so.

And then after completing all the operations can we later convert it back from WPD to SAS7BDAT format.

By: Sandro Saitta

Sandro Saitta — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:55:19 +0000

@krishna: yes, updating a SAS dataset is one of the limitation of WPS. You need to use their format. There should be no problem to read a SAS data (at least with SAS code).

By: krishna

krishna — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:10:51 +0000

Can’t update a data set in the SAS format (need to use the WPS format) and is there any way how to read data sets created in sas by using wps???

reply fast…

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By: Sandro Saitta

Sandro Saitta — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:02:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment Mplee!