Reading Selected Observations
If you are interested
in only part of a large data set, you can use data set options to
create a subset of your data. Data set options specify which observations
you want the new data set to include. In Creating Subsets of Observations you learn how
to use the subsetting IF statement to create a subset of a large SAS
data set. In this section, you learn how to use
the FIRSTOBS= and OBS= data set options to create subsets of a larger
data set.
For example, you might not want to read the observations at the beginning of the data set. You can use the FIRSTOBS= data set option to define which observation should be the first one that is processed. For the data set CITY, this example creates a data set that excludes ...
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