How to download & Install SAS University Edition?
SAS University Edition is a free SAS software provided to faculty, staff and students to use day to day in Universities and at home. To use SAS University edition, we don’t need to pay any licensing fee and it helped to increase the students engagement in Class.
Statistical Analysis system (SAS) was created in 1970s by Jim Goodnight, John Sall and other NC State University Colleagues to analyze agricultural research data. SAS is one of the best tool available for Data analytics. Lot many useful algorithms, intuitive GUI and different statistical methods available in SAS University edition software helps in proper analysis of data.
Download SAS University edition
Before Installing SAS University editions, we must download two softwares for successful SAS installation. They are SAS studio and Virtual Machine. SAS runs on a Virtual Machine, in general we can use Oracle VirtualBox or VMware Workstation.
SAS University edition is for academic and for non commercial use. To download SAS University Edition, click on the URL Get free Software.
- Now click on get free software link as shown above and choose your SAS University edition by choosing Operating system.
- Select your Operating System and select compatible virtualisation software package.
- Scroll down to the page and check for SAS University Edition installation steps.
- Download SAS University Edition for VirtualBox or for VMware at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2.
- Now double click on the downloaded file to install SAS University editions and the VirtualBox get installed.
- Now load the VirtualBox and open the files ends with an extension .vmx.
Installing SAS University Edition on Mac
Power on the VirtualBox Manager
Click on the Power on this VirtualBox alongside the green arrow mark to start VirtualBox. Now the VirtualBox will start running as shown below.
The below screen appears when the SAS VirtualBox is in the state of loading and to open the SAS environment, go to the url shown below.
- Open any browser tab and load the URL and click on Start SAS studio.
Below is the main window we see on entering the SAS environment. On the left side Navigation pane is available which is used to navigate various programming features and Work Area is available on the right side, which is used for writing and executing code.
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we learned how to download SAS University Edition from official website and we successfully Installed SAS University edition on Mac.