Scripting Guide - SAS

484 Extending JMP Chapter 14
Working with SAS
affect those global connections. However, if there is no active global connection, that global connection is
set to the connection opened by the object.
View SAS Libraries
After you connect to a SAS server, use the SAS Get Lib Ref command to view the libraries on that server:
librefs = SAS Get Lib Refs( );
{"BOOKS", "EGSAMP", "GENOMICS", "GISMAPS", "JMPSAMP", "JMPTEST",
"MAILLIB", "MAPS", "OR_GEN", "ORION_RE", "ORSTAR", "SASHELP",
"SASUSER", "TEMPDATA", "TSERIES", "V6LIB", "WORK", "WRSTEMP"}
If the library containing the data that you want is not assigned, assign it:
Open SAS Data Sets
librefs = SAS Assign Lib Refs(“My Library”, “c:\public\data”);
First, assign a SAS library reference:
SAS Assign Lib Refs(“MyLib”, “c:\public”);
The first argument is any name that you want to use to refer to the library reference. The second is the path
on the server where the data sets are located.
Next, get the list of data sets in the selected library:
datasets=SAS Get Data Sets(“MyLib”);
{"ANDORRA", "ANDORRA2", "ANYVARNAME", "BOOKS", "BOOKSCOPYNOT", "BOOKS_VIEW",
"CATEGORIES", "DATETIMETESTS", "MOREUGLY", "NOTTOOUGLY", "PAYPERVIEW",
"PUBLISHERS", "PURCHASES", "PURCHASES_FULL",
Now you can open a data set:
or
or
dt=SAS Import Data(“BOOKS”, “PURCHASES”);
dt=SAS Import Data(librefs[1], datasets[12]);
dt=SAS Import Data(“BOOKS.PURCHASES”);
Once you have a reference to a library, you can get information about any SAS data sets in that library. For
example, you can get a list of variables:
bookvars=SAS Get Var Names(“BOOKS.PURCHASES”);
{"purchaseyear", "purchasemonth", "purchaseday", "bookid", "catid",
"pubid", "price", "cost"}
With that information, you can choose to import only part of the data set by specifying the variables to
import.
dt=SAS Import Data(librefs[1], datasets[12], columns(bookvars[1], bookvars[2],
bookvars[4]));