Our Fall Meeting is set for Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 3-6pm (registration at 2:30pm).  The VENUE has CHANGED for THIS MEETING!!!  We will be meeting at the Chair’s workplace (120 Corporate Woods, Suite 350 (behind Phillip’s European Restaurant).  It should be a great meeting as we have Jason Secosky giving us PART DEUX - A SAMPLER OF WHAT’S NEW IN SAS^® 9.2 — This presentation will highlight new features in DATA step, Macro, and ODS, and show how coding with SAS is easier than ever with SAS 9.2. Key topics include:

• Uses for PROC FCMP
• A procedure for writing functions with DATA step source
• Secure stored macros
• Small, yet significant additions to DATA step
• The pre-production DATA step/ODS interface for custom reporting

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Our own Bill Csont (GVSUG executive committee member) will give a talk entitled  “Panning for Gold: Nuggets of Helpful SAS^® Code”

Examples in this presentation include:

• use of a colon modifier to delete temporary datasets,
• special use of the sum function for contiguous variables,
• importing of a Microsoft Excel worksheet through use of DDE, a many to many merge that is performed using a data step
• a method printing placeholder output to the output window when a dataset has no values.

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Additional Details to follow next week ………………… Stay tuned …………………………………….

Joseph Guido, Chair

I justed wanted to say that our Fall Meeting was a great hit, a definite smash!

Mike Molter gave a great keynote talk entitled “Tips and Tricks for Creating the Reports Your Clients Need to See”.   He gave us some great tips on some of the lesser known features of PROC REPORT and ODS.  Mike was the former chair of GVSUG and so it was wonderful to have him come back home and share with the group.  Mike is currently a Principal Statistical Programmer with a company in North Carolina called INC.  (more…)

Here is a quick reminder that we’ll be having our usual, and highly informal, SAS’n'Suds gathering right after the Fall Meeting breaks up (around 6pm Tuesday). We’ll be meeting up in the lounge/bar at the front of the RIT Inn and Conference Center.

All are welcome. Come join us in toasting our new members, conference speakers, and the continuing excellence of the SAS system.

Joe Guido,
GVSUG Chair

In preparation for the GVSUG Logo Contest being held at our Fall 2008 Meeting (this Tuesday!), I’m posting the five entries we have thus far received (see the full post for logo submissions).

Remember, a winning submission will net you a PharmaSUG conference bag stuffed with various and sundry cool conference goodies. So, if anyone out there is still working on their logo submission, please send a copy to Joe Guido ASAP so we can include it in the judging.
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Dear GVSUG Members and Friends,

This is a reminder that our annual fall meeting is happening Next Week (Tuesday, November 18th from 3:00-6:00pm) at the RIT Inn and Conference Center. Since we need an accurate head count to plan food and drinks for the meeting, I’m asking that you please contact me if you are planning to attend. You can send me an email directly (joseph_guido@urmc.rochester.edu) or use the form on our Contact Page.

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Just a reminder regarding the location for our upcoming meeting (Tuesday, November 18, 2008 from 3:00-6:00 PM). Registration starts at 2:30 PM.

RIT Inn & Conference Center
5257 West Henrietta Road
W. Henrietta, NY 14586
(585) 359-1800

www.ritinn.com

We want to be sure to have enough food, so please remember to send me an email (joseph_guido at urmc.rochester.edu) or drop us a line using our revised Contact Page if you are planning to attend.

Joseph Guido,
GVSUG Chair

Dear GVSUG Members,

Our Fall Meeting is only two weeks away! We’ll be getting together on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center (address after the jump). As you can see we have just updated our web site, so anyone planning to attend may either use the form on our Contact Page or email me directly at joseph_guido@urmc.rochester.edu. This is so we can plan on the correct amount of food and beverage. We have a lot of exciting things for you (more…)

Attention GVSUG members, our Fall Meeting has been scheduled for November 18th, 2008 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center from 3:00-6:00pm (registration begins at 2:30pm). We are very please and honored to have Mr Mike Molter, former Chair of the GVSUG and Conference Chair for NESUG 2009 (Burlington, Vermont), as our keynote speaker. Stay tuned for further details.

Joseph J Guido,
Chair GVSUG