problems using SAS mode

[A.J. Rossini]

Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:

> Dear People,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to use SAS with ESS. I have never tried to
> do so before, and am having some trouble. I have previously used ESS with
> R.
>
> Hopefully I am making some stupid errors which can be easily corrected.
>
> I am first trying to run SAS in batch mode as per the instructions in
> README.SAS.
>
> Note that SAS runs fine both from a regular shell and on a shell from
> inside emacs.
>
> I added the line
>
> (setq ess-sas-local-unix-keys t)
>
> to my .emacs.
>
> I then opened a sas test file in emacs as follows.
>
> **************************
> DATA distance;
> miles = 23;
> kilometr = 1.61*miles;
> PROC PRINT DATA = distance;
> RUN;
> **************************
>
> I then hit F3 as instructed to run the program in SAS mode. I just got
> a beep. None of the other function keys did anything. I suppose it is
> likely that I do not have the right thing in my .emacs file. I am
> reluctant to modify the system files since this would break on an
> upgrade.

If you do C-h b  (show bindings), what are the F# keys bound to?  This
approach should work, so I'm a bit confused.

> I have different problems with interactive SAS mode.

I have many problems with it :-).   I'm not sure how well it works;
Rich has used it before, I've used it before, but it hasn't worked for
me recently, and I suspect it might need to be deprecated.


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