[ESS] Getting SAS to work

[Richard M. Heiberger]

I am puzzled by your experience.  I think you are confusing two distinct
ways of running SAS from within ESS.

Where did the *shell* buffer come from?  It is not a buffer
that ESS uses with the M-x SAS command.  M-x SAS uses the *SAS:1* buffer.
Please let us know whether the *SAS:1* buffer appears, and what is in it.

The "nohup nice" command that you report does not belong to M-x SAS.
It belongs to the alternate way of submitting SAS jobs with the function
keys.  See the section of the ESS manual
     ESS[SAS]-Function keys for batch processing

Rich