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Chapter 8. Managing Data in IMLPlus > 8.3 Creating a Data Object from a SAS Dat...
8.3 Creating a Data Object from a SAS Data Set
Most SAS programmers store data in a SAS data set. The CreateFromFile method instantiates a data object from a SAS data set on the client PC (the file has a sas7bdat extension). The Create-FromServerDataSet method instantiates a data object from a SAS data set on a SAS server, which is typically located in Work, Sasuser, or a user-defined libref such as MyLib.
Creating a data object from a SAS data set is easy: you need to declare the name of the data object and then instantiate the object, as shown in the following statements:
