Achieving a seamless workflow between R, Python, and SAS

Introduction

The content covered in this guide was originally presented as part of a talk at rstudio::conf(2022). The talk materials can be found here.

This guide describes how to use SAS and R (and usually Python) in the same script.

We all love R, but there may be times where we want (or need) to use other languages. Combining multiple statistical programming languages into a workflow allows everyone to use the language(s) they’re most comfortable with, resulting in better and more efficient analyses.

Note

Since SAS is not a free software, you will need a SAS licence in order to follow along with this book.