SAS Software
SAS is a commercial statistical software licensed yearly to NCSU. It can be installed on Windows and some Linux distributions.
https://software.ncsu.edu/campus/sas/ – The NCSU SAS Software Page.
https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/on-demand-for-academics.html – (SAS through a web browser.)
https://support.sas.com/documentation/ – SAS Online Documentation.
SAS is a very large package (over 17GB for the NCSU distribution ISO) and is confusing to install for many people. You will obtain the NCSU distribution ISO following the download instructions.
The instructions below are for installing from the mounted ISO on a Windows computer:
- Mount the ISO
- {Right click} Setup.exe and “Run as Administrator”
- Install SAS Software
- Install SAS Foundation and related Software
- Accept these options from the NCSU ISO:
- SAS Deployment Tester – Client
- SAS Enterprise Guide
- SAS Enterprise Miner Workstation Configuration
- SAS Forecast Batch Interface Java Components
- SAS Foundation
- ADD SAS Foundation Services
- SAS Integration Technologies Client
- SAS ODS Graphics Designer
- ADD SAS PC Files Server
- SAS Providers for OLE DB
- ADD SAS Shared Services
- SAS Studio – Single User
- SAS Text Miner Workstation Configuration
- ADD SAS Universal Viewer
- SAS/GRAPH ActiveX Control
- ADD Standalone Formats
- Click [NEXT] through remaining screens accepting NCSU defaults
This install process is extremely slow and may require disabling your antivirus software or rebooting the computer.