SAS

SAS is an interactive and batch programming environment that provides modules for basic data analysis, statistics, and report writing. SAS also provides access to ORACLE and INGRES databases, time series analysis and forecasting, color graphics, matrix programming, interactive statistical graphics, operations research and project management, and advanced statistics.

Recommendation: Use SAS whenever you need the power of a statistical package, and when your research project does not require that the product be available on SCD-supported supercomputers.

Documentation: There is extensive interactive documentation, available from within the sas command, by typing help. A reference copy of the SAS manuals is available in Consulting Services, Room 17 of NCAR's Mesa Lab. Product and technical information is available at the SAS Institute webpage.
Source code: not available, other than public-domain files under the SAS Institute's webpage.
NCAR users: SAS is available to NCAR computer users on some of SCD's compute-servers. See "SCD Computers, Products, and Libraries" for the names of those computers.

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