September 2019
Beginner
236 pages
5h 33m
English
Chapter 5: Importing Data into SAS
Importing Data from an Excel Workbook
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)
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 ...