SAS Libraries
In SAS, there are two types of libraries:
Libraries can be found from the lower left corner of your SAS Studio interface:
When expanding the Libraries menu, you will see four built-in libraries there:
Work Library
The Work library is a temporary library. It contains temporary data sets in SAS:
When SAS data sets are created, they go into the Work library by default.
Example
Data Results;
Input ID $ Results;
Datalines;
ID1001 80
ID1002 90
ID1003 75
ID1004 78
;
Run;The code above creates a data set called Results.
The data set can be found in the Work library.
The Work library is used to store working data sets.
When you end a SAS session, the working data sets will be deleted.
You can save the data sets in a permanent library. This will be discussed in later sections of this module.