Date:         Sat, 2 May 2009 15:10:10 -0400
Reply-To:     oloolo <dynamicpanel@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         oloolo <dynamicpanel@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: How to create a dataset by appending a single (i.e same)
              dataset multiple times.??
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I agree, especially when the original dataset has a lot of variables, so
either the programmer has to use two arraies to complish this job when
using the array approach or he has to invoke macro facility to transfer the
variable names. But the SASFILE statement does this automatically.


On Sat, 2 May 2009 02:52:54 -0400, S=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B8ren?= Lassen
<s.lassen@POST.TELE.DK> wrote:

>True. Actually I think that this may happen anyway;
>most modern operating systems will buffer often used
>data in memory.
>
>Regards,
>Søren
>
>On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:14:17 -0400, Jonathan Goldberg
><jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM> wrote:
>
>>The solution using point= suggested earlier in the thread could (assuming
>>the dataset fits into memory) be made about equivalent to the array method
>>by putting the dataset into memory with the SASFILES LOAD statement.