SAS Tutorial for UNIX

This hands-on tutorial will familiarize the user with the basics of using SAS in a Linux/UNIX environment. You may move back and forth between this tutorial and an Linux/UNIX session in order to complete the interactive exercises.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Getting started
SAS-in-a-Nutshell


Session 1

Formatting data for SAS
Understanding terms
Rules for SAS names and SAS statements


Session 2

DATA statement
INPUT statement
CARDS statement
Semicolon
TITLE statement
How to run a SAS program
Session 2 Exercise


Session 3

PROC PRINT statement
PROC FREQ statement
Session 3 Exercise


Session 4

LABEL statement
PROC MEANS statement
PROC UNIVARIATE statement
PROC PLOT statement
Session 4 Exercise


Session 5

Attaching formats to variable values
IF/THEN; ELSE; statement
Session 5 Exercises


Session 6

SET statement
IF statement
PROC SORT statement
Session 6 Exercises


Odds -n- Ends

A few suggestions to try on your own
Printing files in UNIX/Linux
Running SAS in the background
Running SAS interactively on UNIX/Linux