You do not need to use a LIBNAME statement before running the CONVERT procedure if you are using PROC CONVERT to convert an OSIRIS file to a SAS data file. (For more information, see the procedure ...

You can also use the CONVERT procedure to convert BMDP, OSIRIS, and SPSS files to SAS data files; see CONVERT for more information.

Starting with Version 16, SPSS offers a free plug-in that lets users run R code within SPSS having full access to the active SPSS Statistics data, and writing its output to the SPSS Statistics Viewer.

There has been a race on by the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and SAS to build up their data analytics capabilities-both through acquisitions and in-house development-and IBM buying SPSS would put it ...