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Setting Up
Before you can create a new data
set, you must assign a libref to the SAS library that will store
the data set.
Reading a Single Data Set
After you have referenced the
library in which your data set is stored, you can write a DATA step
to name the SAS data set to be created. You then specify the data
set to be read in the SET statement.
Selecting Variables
You
can select the variables that you want to drop or keep by using the
DROP= or KEEP= data set options in parentheses after a SAS data set
name. For convenience, use DROP= if more variables are kept than
dropped.
BY-Group Processing
Use the BY statement in the DATA step to group observations for processing. When you use the BY statement ...
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