excel with an SAS engine

Question

is it possible to run excel with an SAS engine and run SAS code on it?

the purpose of this i want to learn SAS a little bit and i dont want to buy it, so maybe i could use it through excel?

Answer 1

No, Excel has no built-in support for running SAS code. However, SAS does have an Office Add-in that allows you to interact with SAS from Excel. However, you are required to have licensed SAS to use this.

Answer 2

For learning purposes, check out the "Learning Edition"

Answer 3

read this article can be helpful for you http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi31/035-31.pdf

Answer 4

If yo are fortunate enough to have access to a *nix system (such as Linux or one of the BSD's), you could take a look at DAP, an open source statistics package that should be able to run this type of programs.