SAS Viya, sasquatch, CAMIS End of Year Nominations, US Connect Poster

2025
Published

October 13, 2025

Attendees

attendees 13_Oct_25
Lyn Taylor Yes
Christina Fillmore Yes
Chi Zhang No
Molly MacDiarmid No
Benjamin Arancibia No
Michael Kane No
Martin Brown No
Stephen McCawille Yes
Miriam Amor No
Peilin Zhou No
Samrit Pramanik No
Brian Varney No
Vikrant Vijay No
Yannick Vandendijck Yes
Vikash Jain No
Michael Walshe No
Anwesha Roy No
Min-Hua Jen No
Jaskaran Saini No
Mariusz Zieba Yes
Chelsea Dickens No
Tejas Pandit No
Ashwath Gadapa No
Sarah Brosens No
Kirsten Findlay No
David Bosak Yes
Aman Bahl Yes

Agenda & Minutes

  • SAS Viya for Learners (SASQUATCH)

    • If you have SAS Viya, then you may be able to use sasquatch in R, to run SAS code.  If you can run sasPy, then you can also run sasquatch.

      https://github.com/ropensci/sasquatch

      The advantage here would be being able to compare R vs SAS numerically from code running.
      Logan is going to create a guide & load to repo, then will hopefully present at a future meeting.  Initially, it will be an optional method, or you can continue to use normal SAS & image screen shot.

  • Within the repo:issues, anything labelled as ‘Hackathon’ was raised for adding package (session info) to pages -  Volunteers needed to add to current pages missing the session info.

  • Use the Discussions channel for technical stats discussions to share issues & progress.

    • ACTION: Christina /Lyn to write something on Contrasts.…  ANCOVA / MMRM etc...  how to output your contrast being made in the design.matrix.

  • Nominations for CAMIS End of Year Awards by 28th Nov.

    • Announcements in the December meeting.

  • US Connect Poster - There are a number of poster slots that have become available to Working Groups for US Connect. Time is limited to take advantage of this opportunity.  If you would like to submit a poster for consideration, please reply to this email with:

    • Poster Title

    • Poster Abstract

    • Presenter Names

    By This Friday 17 October COB 

    Please send poster submission direct to : workinggroups@phuse.global   if you want to apply and say it’s on behalf of CAMIS.

  • AOB

    • Andy Miskell (Eli Lilly)  - Created a list of all their stats methods that they use.  They are going to go through and compare how they do it in SAS and how they do it in R. Will reference CAMIS if we have it available, or research it themselves, (and will hopefully add to CAMIS).  Will also write packages if there are gaps. Open to getting other companies to collaborate across organizations.

    • Teaching proposal submitted by Yannick for a masters thesis student Feb/mar until June/July 2026.

    • AZ organizing R conference for March 2026, CAMIS could be a presenter (30mins). Mariusz to offer one of us to present.

    • ACTION Lyn: Reduce calls to 30 mins going forward.