Introduction to Starting with SAS Data Sets
Purpose
In this section,
you will learn how to do the following:
Reading a SAS data set in a DATA step is simpler
than reading raw data because the work of describing the data to SAS
has already been done.
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display information about a SAS data set
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create a new SAS data set from an existing SAS data set rather than creating it from raw data records
Prerequisites
Before continuing, you
should understand the concepts presented in the following sections:
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