topic Re: Conversion of SAS dataset from SPSS dataset in file size in SAS Procedures

Conversion of SAS dataset from SPSS dataset in file size

deleted_user — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:59:02 GMT

I am a new learner in SAS programming. I have saved a SPSS dataset (about 10MB containing 90000 observations with 300 columns of data fields). However, when I read such dataset in SAS, the file size as saved is about 10 times the original.

e.g.
SAVE TRANSLATE OUTFILE='d:\test.sas7bdat'
/TYPE=SAS /VERSION=7 /PLATFORM=WINDOWS /MAP /REPLACE .

Please advise me how to read it smaller. Thank you.

Re: Conversion of SAS dataset from SPSS dataset in file size

sbb — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:24:10 GMT

Again the SAS support website http://support.sas.com/ will help you here - there is a specific conference paper, noted below:

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/142-29.pdf

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: Conversion of SAS dataset from SPSS dataset in file size

Ksharp — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:35:53 GMT

I am not test.
Try to use:

[pre]
options compress=yes;
[/pre]

Ksharp