02-Getting-Your-Data-into-SAS推荐.pdf

The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fifth Edition Chapter 2: Getting Your Data into SAS Practice is the best of all instructors. Publius Syrus, Circa 42 B.C We all learned by doing, by experimenting (and often failing), and by asking questions. Jay Jacob Wind From Bartletts Familiar Quotations 13th edition, by John Bartlett, copyright 1955 by Little Brown Company. Public domain. From the SAS L Listserv, March 15, 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author. 2.1 Methods for Getting Your Data into SAS Data come in many different forms. Your data may be handwritten on a piece of paper, or typed into a raw data file on your computer. Perhaps your data are in a database file on your personal computer, or in a database management system (DBMS) on the mainframe computer at your office. Wherever your data reside, there is a way for SAS to use them. You may need to convert your data from one form to another, or SAS may be able to use your data in their current form. This section outlines several methods for getting your data into SAS. Most of these methods are covered in this book, but a few of the more advanced methods are merely mentioned so that you know they exist. We do not attempt to cover all methods available for getting your data into SAS, as new methods are continually being developed, and creative SAS users can always come up with clever methods that work for their own situations. But there should be at least one method explained in this book that will work for you. Methods for getting your data into SAS can be put into four general categories: n entering data directly into SAS data sets n creating SAS data sets from raw data files n converting other softwares data files into SAS data sets n reading other softwares data files directly Naturally, the method you choose will depend on where your data are located, and wha