SAS Tutorial

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In this tutorial, you will practice running a SAS script. SAS is a statistics software suite. The sample script we will be using creates a cross-frequency table on the gender and handedness of individuals. This script demonstrates a basic data manipulation and analysis task in SAS, where frequency tables are a common tool used to summarize categorical data.

SAS Script 

/* crosstab.sas */

DATA Hand;
  INPUT gender $ handed $ ;

DATALINES;
Female    Right
Male      Left
Male      Rightcd 
Female    Right
Female    Right
Male      Right
Male      Left
Male      Right
Female    Right
Female    Left
Male      Right
Female    Right
  
PROC FREQ DATA=Hand;
  TABLES gender*handed;
RUN;

SLURM Script

#!/bin/bash
# [ crosstab.sbatch ]
#SBATCH --job-name=crosstab
#SBATCH --output=crosstab.out
#SBATCH --export=ALL
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00
#SBATCH --mem=512m

# This script demonstrates how to run a  SAS program on the Stern grid.
# The SAS program creates a cross tabulation between gender and 
# left- and right-handedness.  It creates TWO files:
#
#       crosstab.log    # the execution log
#                       # 
# and   crosstab.lst    # a table of gender handedness
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# You may submit this 'crosstab.sh' script for:
#     IMMEDIATE  execution,  to the grid using the  'srun'    command, or
#     LATER      execution,  to the grid using the  'sbatch'  command.
#
#
# Example submissions:
# --------------------
# Submit  crosstab.sh  via  sbatch  to the grid for LATER execution with command:
#          sbatch crosstab.sbatch
#  
#
# Specify the software and version to use, and run the sas program:
  module  purge
  module  load   sas/9.4

  sas -nodms crosstab.sas

You can run the script by typing in the following command:

sbatch crosstab.sbatch

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