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

SAS Unix Guide – Wikipedia

Usage Examples

Hello World

$ 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

example-1.sas

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

sas example-1.sas

will produce a log file example-1.log and output file example-1.lst

                                                           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 +
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    105 +
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 WEIGHT |
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    100 +
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     95 +
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     85 +
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     80 +
        ---+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--
          56       57       58       59       60       61       62       63       64       65       66       67       68       69

                                                                   HEIGHT

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