Techniques for Exploring Data

Subsetting Data

This section describes how to copy selected observations or variables to a new data table. The new data table is not dynamically linked to the original data. The original data are not changed.

You can copy selected data by selecting File \blacktriangleright\,New \blacktriangleright\,Data Set from Selected Data from the main menu, as shown in Figure 11.1.

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Figure 11.1: Creating a New Data Table from Selected Data

When you select File \blacktriangleright\,New \blacktriangleright\,Data Set from Selected Data, SAS/IML Studio performs one of the following actions:



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Figure 11.3: Selected Variables and Observations


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