topic Re: read sas7bdat file with SAS9.4 in SAS Programming

read sas7bdat file with SAS9.4

Lemond2022 — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:22:09 GMT

This is the simplest possible question.

I have a file named "population.sas7bdat" at C:\project

How can I read this file on SAS 9.4?

Re: read sas7bdat file with SAS9.4

SASKiwi — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:23:09 GMT

A sas7bdat file is what is called a SAS dataset. The most direct way of reading this into a temporary dataset is like this:

data Want; * Reads the dataset into a temporary dataset called Want.;
  set 'c:\UK\population.sas7bdat';
run;

* Prints the first 10 rows in the dataset;
proc print data = 'c:\UK\population.sas7bdat' (obs = 10);
run;

Re: read sas7bdat file with SAS9.4

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 06:59:01 GMT

Or you go the library way:

libname in "c:\project";

data want;
set in.population;
run;

This assumes that your SAS is in fact installed and running on your desktop. If you use SAS on a server with SAS Studio or Enterprise Guide, you have to upload the file to the server first.