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This guide introduces MD5 and hash functions in general, lists common uses for hash functions, gives advise on how to best use MD5 in SAS, and covers common issues.
This graph and R code compares the exact vs. normal approximations for 95% binomial confidence intervals for n trials with either one success or 50% success.
Here’s a simple way to make a bar plot with error bars three ways: standard deviation, standard error of the mean, and a 95% confidence interval. The key step is to precalculate the statistics for ggplot2.
This SAS macro retrieves the amount of free disk space, and puts the value in the SAS log and in a global macro variable. It works with local and remote drives and mapped and UNC paths. To avoid data loss, use it as a sanity check to verify there is a reasonable amount of disk space before writing data.
Here is code to calculate RMSE and MAE in R and SAS. RMSE (root mean squared error), also called RMSD (root mean squared deviation), and MAE (mean absolute error) are both used to evaluate models. MAE gives equal weight to all errors, while RMSE gives extra weight to large errors.
This R function uses the free freegeoip.net geocoding service to resolve an IP address (or a vector of them) into country, region, city, zip, latitude, longitude, area and metro codes.
After R is done running a long process, you may need to notify the operator to check the R console and provide the next commands. Without installing any more software or creating any batch files or VBS scripts, here is a simple way to create the popup notice in Windows
This is how I solved a problem of Microsoft Outlook 2010 “Trying to Connect” for several days.
Here is how to use Windows Authentication to connect to Microsoft SQL Server with SQLObject.
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