SAS is a software suite that can mine, alter, manage and retrieve data from a variety of sources and perform statistical analysis on it.
Commands
The sas command is used to run SAS.
Local Details
Base SAS is available, providing the command-line sas program.
The GUI version of SAS is not currently available–run this on your workstation if needed. Note that if you invoke sas with no filename arguments, it will try and fail to invoke the GUI version. To avoid this, always specify a filename argument and/or the --nodms option.
sas is a single-core program.
Documentation
Usage Examples
Hello World
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$ module load SAS $ cat helloworld.sas /* Print Hello World */ data _null_; put "Hello, World!"; run; $ sas helloworld.sas $ ls helloworld.log helloworld.sas $ less helloworld.log 1 The SAS System 09:44 Thursday, November 9, 2017 NOTE: Copyright (c) 2002-2010 by SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. NOTE: SAS (r) Proprietary Software 9.3 (TS1M1) Licensed to UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - SFA T&R, Site 70055064. . . . Hello, World! NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.11 seconds cpu time 0.00 seconds |
Simple Statistics and Plot
Given input file example-1.sas
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DATA CLASS;
INPUT NAME $ 1-8 SEX $ 10 AGE 12-13 HEIGHT 15-16 WEIGHT 18-22;
CARDS;
JOHN M 12 59 99.5
JAMES M 12 57 83.0
ALFRED M 14 69 112.5
ALICE F 13 56 84.0
PROC MEANS;
VAR AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT;
PROC PLOT;
PLOT WEIGHT*HEIGHT;
ENDSAS;
; |
running this command
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sas example-1.sas |
will produce a log file example-1.log and output file example-1.lst
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The SAS System 15:17 Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1 The MEANS Procedure Variable N Mean Std Dev Minimum Maximum ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGE 4 12.7500000 0.9574271 12.0000000 14.0000000 HEIGHT 4 60.2500000 5.9651767 56.0000000 69.0000000 WEIGHT 4 94.7500000 14.0386372 83.0000000 112.5000000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The SAS System 15:17 Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2 Plot of WEIGHT*HEIGHT. Legend: A = 1 obs, B = 2 obs, etc. 115 + | | | A | | | 110 + | | | | | | 105 + | | WEIGHT | | | | 100 + | A | | | | | 95 + | | | | | | 90 + | | | | | | 85 + | A | | A | | | 80 + ---+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-- 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 HEIGHT |