topic Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist in New SAS User

ERROR: Physical file does not exist

sandiptemkar — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:32:47 GMT

Hello -

I am beginner of SAS. Working on SAS studio.

Created one text file with name and salary; however getting error as

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /home/u61380258/\Documents\SAS\Salary.txt.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

Please note, the path is exact same since I copied the path and pasted.

Thanks!

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

PaigeMiller — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:46:00 GMT

When a user like you says the information is correct, and SAS says the information is not correct, I believe SAS.

In particular, data sets on your local PC must be uploaded to the SAS Studio server in order for them to be used. It doesn't look like you did this.

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

andreas_lds — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:46:03 GMT

@sandiptemkar wrote:

Hello -

Please note, the path is exact same since I copied the path and pasted.

Thanks!

The path can't be the same, SAS UE runs on Linux, so you have to use / as separator, not \.

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:53:16 GMT

/home/u61380258

lets me think that you use SAS On Demand for Academics. This version of educational SAS runs in the cloud on Linux instances, and it cannot access your local drive(s).

But this

\Documents\SAS\Salary.txt.

is a typical Windows path, so I suspect you tried to access a file on your computer, and this cannot work.

SAS Studio provides a tool to upload files. Mark the intended target directory in your navigation pane, then select Upload (the symbol with the upwards arrow). After this, select the file you want to upload (the SAS Studio applet which was downloaded to your local browser context can access your local drive), and you're done. After this, use the Linux path

/home/u61380258

as the base directory for your filenames. It corresponds to Home in the navigation pane. And use forward slashes to separate directory and file names, the backslash has a completely different function in UNIX systems.

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

sandiptemkar — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:47:12 GMT

It worked .. Thank you so much for your detail explanation.. I am very new to the topic hence did not know this..
Requesting support from you in future for such questions. Thanks once again. I really appreciate your help.

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

bhotchocolate — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:53:38 GMT

this totally helped