

The Viewer provides a quick and convenient way to view SAS datasets, catalogs, transports, JMP files, HTML files, and all text-based files without invoking SAS, or even having SAS installed on your computer. The SAS Universal Viewer is a freely distributed application for viewing and printing files that were created by SAS. Datasets can be opened with the SAS viewer and saved as a CSV file that can be opened by other software applications. However, for any application that cannot read transports directly, SAS offers a free data viewer.

NHANES practice is to release data as SAS transport files, which can be read directly by a number of applications. SAS software is not required to view or use NHANES data. Why is data released in SAS transport files? Overview of Data Accomplishments from NHANES.Publications using Serum, Plasma, and Urine Specimens.Measuring Guides for the Dietary Recall Interview.Serum Latex Allergy (IgE) Data Analysis Issues.NHANES III Public Use Data Files Errata.Questionnaires, Datasets, and Related Documentation plus icon.2010 NHANES Stakeholders Consortium Presentations.We'd love to hear your feedback - feel free to post comments back here. It should go without saying, but I'll say it: in order to use this task, you need to have SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 and JMP - version 7 or 8 - installed on your PC. It's as simple as copying a DLL file into place. To download and install the "Open with JMP" task for SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1: download the task (a ZIP archive) from here, open the ZIP file, and then follow the instructions in the README.txt file for installing it. You can already open JMP data files (and SPSS and Stata) into SAS Enterprise Guide with yet another task. Don't have that one yet? That's another add-in task available from here. Even though the task requires that your SAS data set be on your local PC before opening it with JMP, it's easy to copy data sets from your remote SAS session to your local PC by using the Download SAS Data Set task. This add-in task allows you to select a data set from your PC and open it in JMP as part of your SAS Enterprise Guide process flow. Here's one way: a SAS Enterprise Guide task that opens a selected SAS data set into JMP. If you are among the growing numbers who use these two software applications together, you might be looking for more ways to integrate the two. The SAS Visual Data Discovery package includes, among other things, SAS Enterprise Guide and JMP.
