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Chapter 2 Creating and Opening Files 13
Importing Data
Importing Data
If you have data that exists in a format other than a .jmp file, you can import it and save it as a JMP
data table. The list below gives the file types you can import into JMP.
• Microsoft Excel (.xls), Microsoft Excel 2007 (.xlsm, .xlsx, .xlsb) on Windows with a V3+
compliant ODBC driver
• Text (.txt)
• Text with comma-separated values (.csv)
• Tabbed separated values (.tsv)
• SAS transport (.xpt, .stx) files
• Minitab files (.mtw, .mtp)
• FACS (.fcs)
• Microsoft Access Database (.mdb) on Windows with a V3+ compliant ODBC driver
• Database (dBASE) (.dbf, .ndx, .mdx) on Windows with a V3+ compliant ODBC driver
• MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL on Linux with a V3 + Unicode compliant ODBC driver
• OpenOffice spreadsheets (.sxc) on Linux
• Data (.dat) files
• HTML (.htm, .html)
• SAS versions 6-9 (.sd2, .sd5, .sd7, .sas7bdat) on Windows
• SAS version 6 (.sas7bdat, .ssd, .ssd01, .saseb$data) on Macintosh and Linux
2 Creating and Opening Files
Note: Opening a SAS data set directly is different from connecting to a SAS data set through
integration with a SAS Server. See “SAS Integration” chapter for details.
Opening Text Files
You can open text data files with the extensions .txt, .dat, .csv, and .tsv. Text files can be delimited
using almost any character, or they can be fixed width files. JMP provides three different ways to open
these files: by determining the data arrangement for you, by enabling you to determine the data
arrangement, or by opening the file in a text editor within JMP.
Table 2.1 lists the steps involved in opening text files.