Create a permanent SAS data file in SAS
A SAS data file is a type of SAS-formatted data set that stores data values and descriptor information in an external file. To create a SAS data file, you must define a SAS data library (an alias of a collection of one or more SAS data sets referenced and stored as a unit in SAS) using the LIBNAME
statement.
As an example, to create a SAS data file from a raw data file (for example, datafile.dat
) on a Unix system, you would enter:
LIBNAME misc '~/work';
DATA misc.job1;
INFILE datafile.dat;
INPUT var1 var2 var3;
RUN;
LIBNAME
aliases the library reference (libref)
misc
to the physical space (directory)
~/work
. Be aware that misc
is a logical reference and therefore does not exist in a physical storage unit.
For more, see the UITS Research Technologies Getting Started with SAS under UNIX guide.
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