calls SAS procedures, DATA steps, or macros. You can also use the R option to call functions in the R language.

defines a block of submitted statements. All statements between the SUBMIT and ENDSUBMIT statements are sent to the SAS System or R for processing.

transfers data from a SAS data set into an R data frame

transfers data from a SAS/IML matrix into an R matrix

transfers data from a matrix or data frame into a SAS data set

transfers data from a matrix or data frame into a SAS/IML matrix