Humor — Unusual SAS PROCs

From SAS-L: undocumented PROCs

• PROC DELETE
• PROC EXPLODE
• PROC NICKNAME

That great PROC that SAS never got around to writing:

• PROC RASTINATE

The PROC for people who are a pain in the you-know-what:

• PROC TOLOGIST

Don’t forget:

• PROC REATE to spawn off a process
• PROC TOR to keep an eye on that process
• PROC LAMATION to announce when the process crashes
• PROC ARYOTE for the more primitive “genetic” algorithms
• PROC RUSTES to trim off the heads and tails of distributions
• PROC UREMENT the SAS/OR proc to do marketing forecasts

If your data doesn’t give you the answer your client wants, you can always get the right answer from:

• PROC FUDGE
• PROC FISH