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Chapter 2 Creating and Opening Files 23
Importing Data
Figure 2.7 Opening an Excel File on Windows
2 Creating and Opening Files
Opening SAS Data Sets
SAS data sets are files that were saved in one of many SAS formats. On Windows, JMP can open files
that are SAS version 6 or later. On the Macintosh and Linux, JMP can open files that are SAS
version 6.
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.
• On Windows, JMP uses SAS labels as JMP data table column names by default. You can override
the default and request that JMP uses SAS variable names as JMP column names. See step 4 below.
• On the Macintosh, JMP uses SAS variable names as table column names by default. Once in an
imported JMP data table, you can view the SAS labels by double-clicking the column name. The
SAS label appears as a Notes property. You can also replace the table column names with the SAS
labels by running the script JMP automatically created when it opened the data table. The script is
located in the tables panel under the data table name.
• On Linux, JMP uses SAS labels as JMP data table column names by default.
To open a SAS data set:
1 Select File > Open.
2 On Windows, select SAS Data Sets or Data Files from the Files of type drop-down menu, as
shown in Figure 2.8