Hello all- I am quite new to SAS (I actually learned the basics some years ago but have since not needed to use the software) and am having trouble running a program that was provided by another researcher to input and clean their dataset (both the programs and data are publicly available). I have tried to adapt the initial commands to direct to where I have put the datasets, but when I run the program I end up with a dataset which has all the variable names but is empty!! Below is the initial part of the code. My procees has been: 1) download the file dist91.data.gz from the source 2) place this file in C:\temp\ directory 3) Change the "libname "statement below to read : libname sasdata 'C:\temp'; 4) hit "run" 5) end up with an empty dataset. 6) I have also tried the same as above and also unzipping the .gz file into its raw .dat format, and changing the filename statement to read: filename indata91 'dist91.dat'; 7) same thing happens. As far as I know, this code was written in 2003 and possibly not changed or debugged for newer releases of SAS? I am currently running SAS 9.1 on a Windows 7 based PC. I am probably missing some important syntax, or the code was written for UNIX? The data and programs are downloadable here: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/vanneman/districts/files/index.html I am in need to processing the 1991 data to support an academic research grant application, and can't even get this first piece done. Any thoughts or help most appreciated! _______________________________________Begin SAS code: /* Users will need to create their own libname and filename commands as appropriate for their local computer system */ libname sasdata '.'; filename indata91 pipe 'gunzip -c dist91.data.gz'; data sasdata.dist91 (label='Indian 1991 districts: from dist91.dat'); /* These temporary variables are used only to check correct order of input data file */ drop rec140 rec160 rec300 rec340 rec620 rec650 rec670 rec690 ; attrib DLABEL length = $ 28; infile indata91 ; input /*000*/ /* label record */ stateid $ 1-2 distid $ 3-4 rec000 5-7 year 8-9 version 10 dlabel & /* Total Population */ / /*100*/ pop 11-19 rural 20-28 male 29-37 Rmale 38-46
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