SAS Online Tutorial

SAS Quick Install

These instructions are written for Windows NT 4.0, 1st-time, complete install of this product.  Persons installing SAS PC with these instructions must have access to the campus local area network and must have a LAN account and password.

  1. Open My Computer
  2. Click on Map Network Drive icon situated to the right of the yellow folder icon.
  3. For path, enter   \\ocey2\sas
  4. If prompted for username and password, use your network ID and password to connect (these are the same as you email username and password)
  5. The newly mapped drive window will open with 2 folders present; the folder names are Disk1 and Disk2.
  6. Double-click on Disk1 folder to open it.
  7. Double-click on setup.exe file with the triangular icon to start the installation.
  8. Follow the installation instructions
  9. When prompted for the next disk, change the word disk1 to disk2

SAS Academic Premier Program 

Academic Computing has licensed a number of SAS software products for campus-wide teaching and research use.

The products are available for Sun Solaris, HP/UX, and Windows operating systems and include:

 Base SAS: must be installed to run most of other SAS products

SAS ACCESS: for accessing data used by other software packages. Most of the popular database software is supported

SAS AF: for writing interactive SAS applications

SAS ASSIST: menu-driven front end to SAS

SAS CALC: spreadsheet application

SAS CONNECT: connects computers running the SAS system

SAS EIS: for developing and using custom executive information systems

SAS ETS: for analysis of time-series data, forecasting, and business planning

SAS FSP:  for interactive data entry, editing, and retrieval

SAS GIS: a graphic information system for analyzing data with spatial relationships

SAS GRAPH: produces plots, charts, and maps

SAS IML: Interactive Matrix Language, a programming language with an extensive set of mathematical and matrix operators

SAS INSIGHT: a tool for visual analysis of data

SAS LAB: for guided statistical analysis

SAS OR: provides procedure for project management and operations research

SAS QC:  provides procedure for statistical quality improvement

SAS SPECTRAVIEW: a tool for analysis and visualization of 3-dimentional data

SAS STAT: has procedures for most types of statistical analysis

SAS TUTOR: an online tool for learning the SAS system

SAS is currently installed on all PCs in PAC 493. We will soon install it on PCs in other labs and smart classrooms.

 To install SAS on your office PC: 

  1. Quick Install
  2. Complete Installation Instructions

 

If you need help installing SAS, please call the Helpdesk at 206-7357 and open a service request. An Academic Computing staff member will then contact you to make an appointment for installation.