What Is SAS/IML Studio? :: SAS/IML(R) Studio 12.1: User's Guide

What Is SAS/IML Studio?

SAS/IML Studio is a tool for data exploration and analysis. Figure 1.1 shows a typical SAS/IML Studio analysis. You can use SAS/IML Studio to do the following:

explore data through graphs linked across multiple windows
subset data
analyze univariate distributions
fit explanatory models
investigate multivariate relationships

In addition, SAS/IML Studio provides an integrated development environment that enables you to write, debug, and execute programs that combine the following:

the flexibility of the SAS/IML^®matrix language
the analytical power of SAS/STAT^®procedures
the data manipulation capabilities of Base SAS^®software
the dynamically linked graphics of SAS/IML Studio
the functions and user-contributed packages of the open-source R language

The programming language in SAS/IML Studio, which is called IMLPlus, is an enhanced version of the SAS/IML programming language. The “Plus” part of the name refers to new features that extend the SAS/IML language, including the ability to create and manipulate statistical graphs, to call SAS procedures, and to call functions in the R programming language.

SAS/IML Studio requires that you have a license for Base SAS, SAS/STAT, and SAS/IML software. SAS/IML Studio runs on a PC in the Microsoft Windows operating environment.

Figure 1.1: The SAS/IML Studio Interface