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Add SAS Data from Your Local Computer

Sample data is installed with SAS Enterprise Guide on your computer. In these steps you add two SAS data sets from the sample data directory. The Products data set contains information about the product sold by the specialty foods store, and the Orders data set contains information about customer orders.

  1. Select Filethen Openthen Data. In the Open Data window, select My Computer.

  2. Open the SAS Enterprise Guide samples directory and double-click Data. By default, the sample programs, projects, and data are located in C:\Program Files\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\4.3\Sample.


  3. By default, all file types are displayed in the window. Files with the icon are SAS data sets. Press CTRL and select Orders.sd2 and Products.sas7bdat, and then click Open.

Sample binder with data selected
Click to view the full window.


  1. Shortcuts to the Products and Orders tables are added to the project, and the data sets open in data grids. By default, the tables open in read-only mode. In this mode, you can browse, resize column widths, hide and hold columns and rows, and copy columns and rows to a new table. You cannot edit the data in the table unless you change to edit mode.

    Note When you insert data into a project, you are creating a reference to the data. SAS Enterprise Guide does not make a new copy of the file.

  2. Close the open data grid.

Next you view the properties of the Products table.

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