topic Re: .sas to .sas7bdat conversion help in SAS Programming

.sas to .sas7bdat conversion help

uttara_96 — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 22:07:44 GMT

I am working with the University edition of SAS. I need help converting the .sas files to .sas7bdat, so I can use the .sas7bdat file to create a dashboard on Tableau.

Any help with this conversion process would be greatly helpful.

Re: .sas to .sas7bdat conversion help

Reeza — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:38:10 GMT

A .sas file is a program file, it's a text file, you can open it with notepad.

A .sas7bdat file is a SAS data set.

If you're having trouble importing a data set you need to provide more details.

@uttara_96 wrote:

I am working with the University edition of SAS. I need help converting the .sas files to .sas7bdat, so I can use the .sas7bdat file to create a dashboard on Tableau.

Any help with this conversion process would be greatly helpful.

Re: .sas to .sas7bdat conversion help

ballardw — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:55:00 GMT

I suspect that you may have to export the SAS datasets to another format. While Tableaux will use SAS data sets I suspect that some of the information, such as Formats and variable labels have to be supplied by a link to SAS and the University Edition, which runs in a LINUX emulator doesn't communicate properly to Tableau running in Windows.