Integrate SAS with R

Combine R language functions with SAS through various code libraries.

These packages allow you to:

  • Load, import, and profile data using an integrated development environment (IDE) or REST APIs.
  • Cleanse, prepare, and transform your data.
  • Use functions to manage and provide governance for data assets and their relationships.
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R SWAT

The SAS Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer (SWAT) package is the R client to SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). It allows users to execute CAS actions and process the results all from R.

R-sasctl

r-sasctl provides tools for easy access of SAS Viya APIs from an R perspective, facilitating model management.

SAS/IML software and R

Interactive matrix language (IML) is a programming language for statistical computations, focusing on algorithms using matrices and vectors. SAS/IML configures the SAS system so that you can call functions such as transferring data to R, calling R functions from PROC IML, and writing the results from R to several SAS data structures, all in the R language.

Get Started with SAS/IML and R

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Get Started with SAS/IML and R

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MLOps for Pirates and Snakes: The Sasctl Packages for R and Python

SAS Model Manager and the sasctl packages aim to create a seamless ModelOps and MLOps process for Python and R models. Python and R models are not second-class citizens within SAS Model Manager. SAS, Python, and R models can be easily managed using our no-code/low-code interface. This is an interface that can be extended to support a variety of use cases.

Embedding any code anywhere into SAS programs

SAS expert Leonid Batkhan presents the %embed macro function as a way to embed both “foreign” and SAS native code from a file into a SAS program, preventing clutter in your code.

Installing R for SAS IML in SAS Viya

Since 2008, SAS has supported an interface for calling R from the SAS/IML matrix language. Many years ago, I wrote blog posts that describe how to call R from PROC IML. For SAS 9.4, the process of installing R and calling R from PROC IML is documented in the SAS/IML [...]

Compare the default definitions for sample quantiles in SAS, R, and Python

A SAS programmer recently asked why his SAS program and his colleague's R program display different estimates for the quantiles of a very small data set (less than 10 observations). I pointed the programmer to my article that compares the nine common definitions for sample quantiles. The article has a [...]