Introduction

Combining data vertically refers to the process of concatenating or interleaving data. In some cases the data may be in SAS data sets. In other cases the data may be stored in raw data files.

In this lesson you learn how to create a SAS data set by concatenating multiple raw data files using the FILENAME and INFILE statements. You also learn how to concatenate SAS data sets using PROC APPEND.

Concatenating Data


Notice:

Setting Up Filerefs for Practices in This Lesson



1.5 hours



In this lesson, you learn to
  • create a SAS data set from multiple raw data files using a FILENAME statement
  • create a SAS data set from multiple raw data files using an INFILE statement with the FILEVAR= option
  • append SAS data sets using the APPEND procedure.

complete the following lessons:

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