A SAS Kernel for Jupyter Notebooks
- Python3.X
- Jupyter
- SAS 9.4 or higher – This includes SAS Viya
- Linux OS
With the latest changes in saspy it is no longer a requirement that Jupyter and SAS be installed on the same machine. SAS and Jupyter can now communicate via passwordless ssh. This is in response to issue 11. The configuration details are located in sascfg.py
Here is the link to the current documentation https://sassoftware.github.io/sas_kernel/
To successfully use the SAS Kernel you must have each of the following: * SAS version 9.4 or above * Jupyter * Jupyter has a number of dependencies. See the subsections for steps on installing Jupyter on your system. * Python 3
- Download and install Anaconda Python (make sure you get Python3.X). If you install Anaconda without super user rights (root or sudo) then other users on the system will not be able to access the SAS kernel. A couple notes that I’ve observed:
- The default install location is the users home directory. This is
fine for a single user install I would put it in a common location
(
/opt
) if you’re doing a system wide install - One of the prompts is to add the path to your environment. I recommend you want to answer ‘yes’ to that question so that all the installing user has the executables in their path. If you’re doing a system wide install (root or sudo) all the other users should add that path to their environmental variables
Install sas_kernel. The sas_kernel has a dependency on saspy which is located here. In the command below I’m assuming that
pip
maps to python3 if that is not the case the you might need to usepip3
instead.pip install sas_kernel
Verify that the sas_kernel is installed
jupyter kernelspec list
If you installed as a superuser, your output should similar to this:
Available kernels: python3 /opt/Anaconda3-2.5.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipykernel/resources sas /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/sas
If you installed as a regular user (sas in this case), your output should similar to this:
Available kernels: python3 /home/sas/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipykernel/resources sas /home/sas/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/sas
Verify SAS Executable is correct
- find the sascfg.py file – it is currently located in the install location (see above) `[install location]/site-