Top 20 Procs in SAS University Edition

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SAS University Edition has been available for free download for six months – in that time we’ve seen 50,192,670 PROCs or DATA steps executed globally – that’s almost 4,000 hours duration!

Now, we were founded on stats so we thought we’d bring you some of the key metrics we’ve discovered over the past six months.

  • 50,192,670 PROCs/DATA steps executed
  • 13,634,561 seconds of duration for all PROCs (3,787.38 hours)
  • 40,403 unique systems have registered
  • 22,629 unique systems that have reported usage (56% of all registered)

SAS Analytics UTop 20 PROCs executed

Did your favourite PROC make it into the list? Can't see it? Ask us in the comments below – we have more data! Or you can head on over to the SAS Analytics U online community to discuss.

Obs. Name Number executed Sum of time spent executing
(seconds)
1 DATA Step 34,403,229 2,699,397
2 SQL 4,482,278 709,635
3 SORT 3,533,974 412,108
4 PRINT 1,561,451 1,753,789
5 MEANS 1,129,950 176,810
6 APPEND 475,796 39,004
7 PRINTTO 473,741 31,454
8 DATASETS 433,945 89,520
9 FREQ 340,295 410,420
10 TRANSPOSE 304,311 9,314
11 ROBUSTREG 300,183 171,981
12 IMPORT 279,215 365,478
13 MIXED 226,042 763,875
14 PLOT 206,895 11,386
15 UNIVARIATE 166,502 729,890
16 REG 154,523 1,372,852
17 CONTENTS 152,598 67,762
18 SGPLOT 148,290 388,157
19 SUMMARY 121,574 14,833
20 CORR 107,992 77,494

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James Enoch

Education and Academic Manager

Hi, I'm James Enoch. I have a passion for education and training, with over 15 years experience in the industry developing corporate training programs as well as working with the tertiary education sector. At SAS, I lead our Education department and Academic Program in Australia and New Zealand. Outside of SAS, I love spending time with my family, follow most sports, play football (soccer), enjoy running and occasionally have the time to binge watch a TV series on Netflix. Follow me on Twitter @James_Enoch

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