Relabeling variables in a dataset - 0 observations?

[fareeham10]

I have a dataset called “Now”,

And I wanted to rename some of the variables within “Now”.

To do this I created a duplicate dataset labeled “UpdatedNow” with the rename function for the different variables and what I want it changed to.

However when I run this:

1)upon clicking on the “UpdatedNow” dataset, the message “NOTE: Data set has 0 observations” keeps coming up. What am I doing wrong? 

2) Also, why are the label names not actually converting?

Would greatly appreciate all and any advice. Thank you!

  

[japelin]

Are you sure you are not using the label display?
Try switching to variable name display by doing the following.

Or try using proc contents to display a list of variable names.

[PaigeMiller]

I think @japelin has the right answer, and of course a simple fix.

[Ksharp]

data now;
 set sashelp.class;
 label name='XXXX';
run;

data updatednow;
 set now;
rename name=aaaa age=bbbb weight=cccc height=dddd;
attrib _all_ label='';
run;

Remove all these variable's label .