Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Dmxrob
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 04:49 pm

BY: Dumas Walker (21:1/175)
On Monday,September 01, 2025 at 09:51 AM, Dumas Walker (21:1/175) wrote:

DW> Sometimes that is difficult, but many times an understand of general
DW> logic
DW> will go a long way to getting you from A to B.  During COVID, we had a
DW> developer pass away unexpectedly.  I am a COBOL programmer by trade.  I
DW> had
DW> to pick up at least a basic knowledge of SAS coding (mainframe and PC)
DW> pretty quickly.  There was actually a third language that a couple of

Exactly.  I did this just last week helping someone with "R" (Microsoft's version of SAS).  They had an error that had been in place since October of 2024.  I kept seeing this error in the logs, and finally had enough and reached out and said "Hey, I see you have an issue with a file permission in your script...", found the line of code and pointed it out and gave him the corrected line of R script to fix it with and whala - fixed.  It baffles me something that took me less than 5 minutes to do they had erroring out since last October.  I'm no R expert, but if you undertand the basic framework of any language you an figure this stuff out.

-dmxrob


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