Introduction to Raw Data
Purpose
To create a SAS data
set from raw data, you must examine the data records first to determine
how the data values that you want to read are arranged. Then you can
look at the styles of reading input that are available in the INPUT
statement. SAS provides three basic input styles:
You can use these styles individually, in combination
with each other, or in conjunction with various line-hold specifiers,
line-pointer controls, and column-pointer controls. This section demonstrates
various ways of using the INPUT statement to turn your raw data into
SAS data sets.
-
list
-
column
-
formatted
You can enter the data directly in a DATA step or use an existing file of raw data. If your data is machine readable, ...
Get Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS 9.4 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
