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A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SASⓇ Studio
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A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SASⓇ Studio

by Ron Cody
September 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
236 pages
5h 33m
English
SAS Institute
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Chapter 5: Importing Data into SAS

Introduction

Exploring the Utilities Tab

Importing Data from an Excel Workbook

Listing the SAS Data Set

Importing an Excel Workbook with Invalid SAS Variable Names

Importing an Excel Workbook That Does Not Have Column Headings

Importing Data from a CSV File

Shared Folders (Accessing Data from Anywhere on Your Hard Drive)

Conclusion

Introduction

Now that you have learned how to perform operations on built-in SASHELP data sets, it’s time to see how to import your own data into a SAS library.

SAS data sets contain two parts: the first part is called the data descriptor, also known as metadata. Metadata is a fancy word for data about your data. In the case of a SAS data set, this portion of the data set contains ...

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