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386 SAS Integration Chapter 11
Opening SAS Data Sets
Figure 11.10 Column Details
Name Column name from the SAS data set.
Label Descriptive column label. The label can be longer than the name, and is often helpful to
determine what the column name means.
Type Specifies whether the column has a character or numeric data type.
Length The length in bytes of data in the column.
Sort Order How the column is sorted in SAS.
Format The format for the SAS column, such as DOLLAR. This format field also contains
information about the width of formatted values and the number of decimal places.
Open a SAS Data Set in JMP
You can import SAS data sets directly into JMP.
1 Select a data set.
2 Click Import.
The SAS data set is imported into a JMP data table. When SAS data is imported, JMP attempts to
make the best match to the SAS format.
If you only want to import a portion of a data set, you do any of the following:
• Select a subset of the columns ().
• Construct a WHERE clause to filter the data ().
• Take a random sample of the data.