System Options, Volume 2
or On Beyond YEARCUTOFF
What if there were a second set of system options . . . a book 2 of options that left rationality and practicality behind? Which of these options might be useful to you?
- BUGFREE
- rewrites submitted SAS statements to remove errors.
- REINIT
- lets you travel back in time to the beginning of the SAS session so you can try again.
- MISSING=ACTUAL
- replaces missing values with the unknown actual values.
- MARSIZE=STD
- translates SAS messages and output text into standard Martian.
- UPBEAT
- adds a more positive tone to error messages, especially when a program generates hundreds or thousands of them.
- MSGLABEL=':-)' ':o|' 'X-('
- Replaces the words NOTE, WARNING, and ERROR with your selection of emoticons.
- $CASH
- turns all those dollar signs in submitted SAS statements into real money.
- M$CASH
- the same as $CASH, but works on macro-generated statements.
- OBS=ESS
- keeps going over the same old observations again and again.
- NSYNC
- plays a new music video for three minutes while you're waiting for a SAS program to run.
- WEEKENDCUTOFF='Friday 15:30'
- forces a SAS program to finish running by 3:30 Friday afternoon so you can get an early start on your weekend.
- PINTINIT
- sets up a new empty beer mug.
- ERRORPOOF
- makes the SAS session disappear in a puff of smoke as soon as an error occurs.