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# Stats - SAS / SPSS / STATA

You can import both local and remote Stats (SAS / SPSS / STAT) File Data quickly.

## 1. Select Stats (SAS / SPSS / STAT) File Data Menu

Click '+' button next to 'Data Frames' and select 'Import File Data'.

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If you import Stats (SAS / SPSS / STAT) File on your desktop or laptop, make sure Local tab is selected. If you import a file from remote server like Amazon S3, Dropbox, etc make sure Remote tab is selected. Click 'Stats File (SPSS, SAS, STATA)'

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## 2. Select File.

If you select local, file picker shows up so select a file to import.

### 2.1 Local File

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### 2.2 Remote File

if you select remote, small dialog shows up so enter a URL for the file. And select File Type from Pulldown list.

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## 3. Input parameters

* Encoding (Optional) : The character encoding used for the data file.

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## 4. Column Selection

On top of input parameters, you can also use checkboxes on the preview table to include/exclude columns. if you uncheck the checkboxes on the columns, these columns are excluded when you save the data.

## 5. Preview and Import

Click Preview button to see the data in Stats (SAS / SPSS / STAT) File. If it looks ok, then you can click 'Import' to import the whole Stats (SAS / SPSS / STAT) data into Exploratory.