Obtaining SAS for Student Use

LSU students can obtain copies of SAS for their personal use, either for doing classwork or for analyzing their research data. You are licensed to use SAS only as long as you are a student at LSU.

Cost is $25 per year for all or part of a license year (the cost is not prorated). Our license year runs from March 15 through March 14, but SAS will continue to function through the beginning of June. If you wish to continue using SAS, you will have to pay an additional $25 per license year. Payments are applied to the license year beginning in the year the check was written. For example, a check written any time in 2003 is applied toward the March 15, 2003-March 14, 2004 license year. The $25 is a license fee; you have paid for permission to use SAS. You have not paid for a copy of the CD and you have not paid for any documentation.

Procedure

  1. Contact Ms. Roserine White, Ag. Admin. Room 161, 388-8303 to get your name on the waiting list to check out the SAS CD.
  2. You will be notified by telephone or e-mail when it is your turn to get the CD and you will pick up the CD in Ag. Admin. Room 161.
  3. Before you take the CD, you must complete a license agreement form and give Ms. White a check for $25. You may do this either when you reserve the CD or when you come to pick it up.
  4. You may keep the CD no longer than 48 hours unless you make special arrangements to keep it longer.
  5. Return the SAS CD and binder to Ag. Admin. Room 161.

System Requirements

SAS will run (slowly) in 8 MB RAM, but more is better. We recommend at least 16 MB, more if you are running Win95. The default installation uses approximately 250 MB of hard drive space. If you need to conserve hard drive space:

  1. Choose the Custom rather than Default installation.
  2. Choose the following components: Base, Stat, Graph.
  3. For 4085: also Assist, Insight, FSP, and IML.
    For 7003, 7004, 7005: also Assist and Insight.
    For 7013, 7014, 7015: also Insight.
    For 7031, 7034, 7036: also IML.
    For 7037: also Insight and IML.
    For 7087: also IML and QC.
  4. You do not need to install any of the sample data sets/libraries.