sasquatch
Use SAS, R, and Quarto together
I have had to do a fair number of assignments in SAS, and whenever I did I missed the ability to simply include all my code and my comments in a single reproducable rmarkdown/quarto document. When I first came across this presentation by Johann Laurent, I became excited. BaselR had introduced a package, configSAS that allowed me to use SAS with all the nicities that come with quarto!
When I set configSAS up, I became a little disappointed. There was no syntax highlighting, the SAS output’s CSS caused weird styling behavior throughout the rest of the quarto document, and I couldn’t see any SAS output unless I rendered the entire quarto document over again. Still, I thought this was better than nothing. I continued to use configSAS for almost a year until I decided there had to be a better way. That’s what sasquatch aims to be.
sasquatch gives you the ability to work with SAS interactively just as you would R or Python, but within your R IDE of choice. And it allows you render beautiful quarto documents with syntax highlighting. You can even send tables between R and SAS to do your analysis in whatever language is easiest!
I won’t lie, a few of the solutions I had to use were a little janky. Syntax highlighting is provided by a separate xml file specified in the quarto options. The SAS output is rendered inside an iframe, which is dynamically resized to fit its contents using a javascript library linked in the quarto options and within each iframe. Hopefully, I can think of more elegant solutions to these problems, but in the mean time, check it out!