topic Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license in SAS Programming

suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

stataq — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:22:33 GMT

Hello,

Sorry for posting this question here. I am thinking to purchase a individual license sas for my personal use. I used sas in my company during my work time, which has following info:

what kind of license should I get in order to do most of the stuff? Nothing too fancy, just regular table, graphs, and statistical models. Any suggestion? Just want to have a functional sas with necessary parts, instead of oay extra for sth that I will never use. 😅

Thanks.

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

PaigeMiller — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:30:34 GMT

@stataq wrote:

Hello,

Sorry for posting this question here. I am thinking to purchase a individual license sas for my personal use. I used sas in my company during my work time, which has following info:

what kind of license should I get in order to do most of the stuff? Nothing too fancy, just regular table, graphs, and statistical models. Any suggestion? Just want to have a functional sas with necessary parts, instead of oay extra for sth that I will never use. 😅

I will start by saying that this is extremely brief and vague description of what you will be doing with SAS. A more complete and specific description may lead to different advice.

But based upon what you have written, you need Base SAS and SAS/STAT and ODS Graphics.

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

stataq — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:35:33 GMT

@PaigeMiller thanks so much for the suggestion. any other modules that you feel very useful and I should get? I tried to search the site, but it only asked me to set up demo request. Don't want to sounds like fool. 🤣

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:37:24 GMT

Hi:
ODS Graphics is part of Base SAS. You'll probably also need the SAS/Access for PC File Formats at the very minimum SAS/Access component. Other SAS/Access components, like Oracle, DB2 or ODBC will depend what you'll need to use with SAS.
Cynthia

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

SASKiwi — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:45:59 GMT

Are you aware that there is free SAS software available for learning purposes only - SAS OnDemand for Academics? That may help you decide what products you may want to license and also provides access to products you don't license.

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

PaigeMiller — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:19:43 GMT

@stataq wrote:

any other modules that you feel very useful and I should get?

It doesn't matter what *I* think is useful. It matters what you will be doing with SAS.

Tell us more about what you will be doing with SAS. Without more info, I recommend you get everything.

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

PaigeMiller — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:23:34 GMT

@Cynthia_sas wrote:
ODS Graphics is part of Base SAS.

How could anyone know this fact? If I look at this page of the SAS web site, I see that for example, PROC SGPLOT is not listed as part of Base SAS. Is the documentation wrong? Am I misunderstanding the SAS web page?

Re: suggestion for modules/components for induvial sas license

Cynthia_sas — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:09:35 GMT

Hi:

Basically your link is pointing to the index for SAS Procedures by Name. But the ODS GRAPHICS documentation is just farther down on that same page in the same contents panel, just organized differently:

So if you go down to the Output and Graphics topic and click on the ODS Graphics Suite, you'll see the content link for the ODS Graphics Procedures here:

I have gotten so used to looking for ODS GRAPHICS documentation in a different place that I thought it was good to mention that a separate license wasn't needed. As I remember the journey, ODS GRAPHICS was experimental in SAS 9.1, included with a SAS/GRAPH license in 9.2 and moved into Base SAS in version 9.3.

Cynthia