SAS installation and licensing
SAS (Statistical analysis software) at Dartmouth is licensed annually and provided at no cost to individual users for use on desktops, and with cost sharing for server installations. SAS is licensed only for academic use (teaching and research) by faculty, staff and students.
- Individual desktop licenses at no charge to Dartmouth users (Windows and Linux)
- Server licenses available for a charge
- SAS is not available for MacOS
- SAS is installed on the Research Computing shared-access Linux servers and Discovery cluster, and available to all users on those systems.
SAS installation
- Directly mount SAS Software Depot as a network share and run installer (installation page, with details)
- Download approx 20GB Software Depot (not yet available)
- IT Staff have direct access to Software Depot and license files via DartFS
SAS license renewal (when SAS reports an expired license)
- Request latest license file as above.
- Apply renewal license to an existing SAS installation
Text encoding in SAS
Text fields in SAS datasets are encoded using either the LATIN1 character set (also known as ISO-8859-1, or sometimes "extended ASCII"), or "UTF-8" (Unicode). The default is UTF-8, but can be changed to LATIN1 for backward compatibility or easier sharing of datasets with people using that standard.
On the Research Computing Linux servers, SAS versions up to 9.4TS1M7 use a default of LATIN1. Beginning with 9.4TS1M8, the default is UTF-8. The encoding may be switched to either type by using one of these methods:
- Set in systemwide configuration file ("
-encoding latin1" in sasv9_local.cfg) - desktops only
- Pass a command line option to SAS on startup, e.g.
sas -encoding latin1
- Set environment variable SASV9_OPTIONS before running SAS, e.g.
export SASV9_OPTIONS="-encoding latin1"
- Explicitly specify encoding information for each dataset in the SAS program. See SAS documentation for details.