Using SAS ® and L A T E X to Create Documents with Reproducible Results

Reproducible research is an increasingly important paradigm, and tools that support it are essential. Documentation for many SAS analytical products has long been created from a single-source system that embeds SAS ® code in L ATEX files and generates statistical results from those files. This system is now available to SAS users as an open-source package, which is similar in spirit to Sweave (Leisch 2002) and SASweave (Lenth 2007). The system automatically generates the SAS program file, which includes SAS macros that use the ODS document for capturing the output as external files. Listing and Graphic tags display the captured tabular and graphical output. This paper describes how to access and implement the package, and it illustrates typical usage with several examples.