This one-session class is a hands-on introduction to the use of SAS in the UNIX environment. Topics include invoking interactive SAS, the use of the Display Manager System (the three-screen interactive setup of SAS), reading and writing UNIX files during a SAS session, and temporary and permanent SAS data sets. Users are guided through a complete cycle of statistical computing: writing and submitting a program, viewing output, revising and resubmitting the program. Since version 9 of SAS includes a full-service point-and-click interface called Enterprise Guide, the last portion of this workshop will consist of a hands-on introduction to Enterprise Guide operations and capabilities for data manipulation and analysis without the need to write a SAS program. Participants should login and verify their UNIX accounts prior to the class to facilitate hands-on participation.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the UNIX environment, particularly the commands:

cp, mv, rm, cd, mkdir, ls, lpr

Outline

• Introduction to documentation and consulting resources
• Overview of UNIX operating system and file management
• Overview of the Display Manager (full-screen) working environment
  • window commands
  • Function Keys
• Review of SAS language
  • DATA step
  • PROC step
• SAS Data Sets
  • temporary
  • permanent
• LIBNAME and FILENAME statements
• Temporary exit to UNIX
• Dealing with raw data
  • external file
  • instream data
• Modifying SAS data sets
• SAS Log and Output
• Saving the Output, Log or Program to an external UNIX file
• Including a program held in an external UNIX file
• Printing output
• SAS/ASSIST

Students will be able --

--to invoke SAS in full-screen mode
--to explain the basic significance of the SAS DATA step
--to write a simple SAS program that reads in raw data

from an external raw data set

--to write a DATA step designed to modify a SAS data set
--to submit a SAS program, view the output, revise the

original program and submit again

--to include a program held in an external file for running in

interactive SAS

--to save the Output, Log, and Program to an external file

Class Outline
SAS Under UNIX (ITS Document)

Terminals or other machines that connect to RCF/SCF
Overhead projector connected to instructor computer station
Student accounts (provided for students who don't already have an account)