Biostatistics by Example Using SAS Studio

Chapter 3: 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)

Demonstrating How to Read Data from a Shared Folder

Conclusions

Problems

Introduction

Now that you have learned how to perform some simple tasks using one of the 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: one is called the data descriptor, also known as metadata. Metadata is a fancy word for data about your data. ...