SAS University Edition Using SAS OnDemand

SAS University Edition is really SAS, and it's really free of charge to anybody with a university email address. To use it on a SAS Institute server for free, go to https://welcome.oda.sas.com . For Mac users, Firefox and Chrome often seem to work better than Safari.

The first time you visit, you'll need to create an account. All you need is a university email address.

Before creating your account, make sure your computer's language preference is set to English; you may need to re-start. Why? When you sign up, the SAS website will detect and propagate your language preference, so that when you use SAS OnDemand, the interface and much of your results file and log file will be in your preferred language. The problem is that if you are using SAS for a class, your professor and TA may not be able to read your printouts. They need to be able to tell what you did, and they need to be able to read error messages and warnings. You can re-set your computer's language preference after using SAS OnDemand for the first time.

If you forget to set your language preference to English before signing up, put this line at or near the beginning of all your SAS programs:

options locale = EN_US;

After you sign up for SAS OnDemand, they will send email with your user id in a few hours at most. To use the software,


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