Overview

SAS Studio is a development application for SAS that you access through your web browser. With SAS Studio, you can access your data files, libraries, and existing programs, and you can write new programs. You can also use the predefined tasks in SAS Studio to generate SAS code. When you run a program or task, SAS Studio connects to a SAS server to process the SAS code. The SAS server can be a hosted server in a cloud environment, a server in your local environment, or a copy of SAS on your local machine. After the code is processed, the results are returned to SAS Studio in your browser.

Programming in SAS Studio

Many people program in SAS by using an application on their PC desktop or SAS server. SAS Studio is different because it is a tool that you can use to write and run SAS code through your web browser. With SAS Studio, you can access your data files, libraries, and existing programs and write new programs. When you use SAS Studio, you are also using SAS software behind the scenes. SAS Studio connects to a SAS server in order to process SAS commands. The SAS server can be a hosted server in a cloud environment or a remote server in your local environment. After the code is processed, the results are returned to SAS Studio. SAS Studio supports multiple web browsers, such as Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge on Chromium, and Mozilla Firefox. As you work through this document, you will learn how to perform these tasks:

• write a program
• save your results
• correct a programming error
• use the Libraries section to save time
• use SAS Studio to write a program for you