You can use a VAR clause with the CREATE statement to select the variables that you want to include in the new data set.
The syntax is as follows:
CREATE SAS-data-set <VAR operand> ;
In the previous example, the new data set Ratio had one variable. You can use the VAR clause to create a similar data set to contain both HWRatio and Name. Notice that the variable HWRatio is numeric and the variable Name is character. Consequently, these two variables cannot coexist in a single matrix. The following statements create a new
data set, Ratio2, to contain the variables Name and HWRatio:
create Ratio2 var {"Name" "HWRatio"};
append;
show contents;
close Ratio2;
Figure 7.19: New Data Set from Variables
DATASET : WORK.RATIO2.DATA
VARIABLE TYPE SIZE
-------------------------------- ---- ----
Name char 8
HWRatio num 8
Number of Variables : 2
Number of Observations: 19
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