SAS Viya Programming

Access the capabilities of SAS Viya through Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) actions for data access and analytics, run directly from SAS applications.

SAS Viya provides several ways to access services and analytics through SAS procedures. CASL is a language specification used by SAS and other clients to interact with CAS.

SAS Viya provides a variety of interfaces for running CAS actions, including from a SAS session, Python, R, Lua, and via REST using the CAS REST APIs.

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10 beneficios del Anti-Money Laudering (AML)

Combatir el crimen financiero a través de SAS AML en Viya En la era digital, el crimen financiero se ha convertido en una preocupación global de gran magnitud. Uno de los delitos financieros más prominentes y destructivos es el lavado de activos, un proceso mediante el cual los delincuentes intentan [...]

Compute the geometric median in SAS

Given a set of N points in k-dimensional space, can you find the location that minimizes the sum of the distances to the points? The location that minimizes the distances is called the geometric median of the points. For univariate data, the "points" are merely a set of numbers $${p_1, [...]

Use the metalog distribution in SAS

A previous article describes the metalog distribution (Keelin, 2016). The metalog distribution is a flexible family of distributions that can model a wide range of shapes for data distributions. The metalog system can model bounded, semibounded, and unbounded continuous distributions. This article shows how to use the metalog distribution in [...]

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 [...]