Release Notes

The following release notes pertain to SAS/IML^® Studio 3.3:

• SAS/IML Studio was formerly named SAS^® Stat Studio. SAS/IML Studio can run SAS Stat Studio programs and modules without modification. For information about how to migrate your SAS Stat Studio files and directories to SAS/IML Studio, see the "Changes and Enhancements" topic in the online Help.

• SAS/IML Studio requires the second maintenance of SAS 9.2 or any later release.

• SAS/IML Studio includes interface to the R language. The IMLPlus language includes functions that transfer data between SAS data sets and R data frames, and between SAS/IML matrices and R matrices.

• You can now run portions of a program by highlighting certain statements and clicking
  Program Run. Only the highlighted statements are run.

• SAS/IML Studio contains a new program editor.

• SAS/IML Studio can now read and write JMP^® data files.

• The SAS/IML Studio user interface is available in the following languages: English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

• If you need to open a data set that contains Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters, it is important that you configure the "Regional and Language Options" in the Windows Control Panel for the appropriate country. It is not necessary to change the Windows setting called "Language for non-Unicode programs," which is also referred to as the system locale.

• When you are running SAS/IML Studio on a Windows system configured for a language other than English, you can still use English fonts. For details, search for the term
  "IMLStudio_ForceEnglishUI" in the online Help.