February 2018
Beginner
366 pages
7h 2m
English
Temporary versus Permanent SAS Data Sets
Shared Folders: Communicating between Your Virtual Computer and Your Real Computer
Creating a Shared Folder and Reading Data from It
Creating a Permanent SAS Data Set
Reading from a Permanent SAS Data Set
Besides reading raw data from text files, SAS can also read and write data from SAS data sets. Once you have created a SAS data set from raw data or you have been given a SAS data set, you are ready to run SAS procedures to analyze your data or to write a DATA step to create new variables or to further manipulate your data.
A SAS data set actually contains two parts: One is called the data descriptor; ...