ST 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Weird Number, Delimiter

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Raw data - file with data in it. Sas data set - file with data in it in a sas format. Library - collection of sas files stored in a folder. From external file, use data step with infile and input. Character data longer than 8 characters sas default is to just display the first 8 letters/characters. Numeric data may be in a format . There may be a $ or a - as part of the numeric value. Sas cannot read that in as numeric. Sas can read as character - but that doesn"t give the ability to add/subtract dates need special format. First thing we are going to do when we enter sas from now on is to set up a library using libname. Use a 2 level name to specify you want to put a new dataset called sample in the. Infile folder path for the sample data set . txt firstobs = 2.

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