ST 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Office Open Xml, Delimiter, Data Set
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Data set - file with data in it. Library - collection of sas files stored in folder. Used 2 in this class so far sashelp & work. Proc sort data = sashelp. heart out = sortedheart; Sortedheart would be a temp data set that sas puts in the work library and would disappear after the session ended. On left click libraries click sashelp see built-in data sets we"ve been using click up arrow to go back click work library to see the temp library so far. Make this folder into a sas library. Telling sas to look at the folder location and use that as a library. Run the command to create a new permanent library. Libref - no more than 8 characters, only letters, numbers and underscores. Libname lets sas name know to create a library. Built-in (in a sas created permanent library) Created using a data step or a proc step.
