topic Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname in New SAS User

SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

jjadalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:03:01 GMT

Hello:

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. I received the following note in SAS Studio:

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

73 libname alam "C:\Users\Owner\Dropbox\SAS_data\alam";

NOTE: Library ALAM does not exist.

74 run;

76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

My original code is:

libname alam "C:\Users\Owner\Dropbox\SAS_data\alam";
run;

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

jjadalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:03:46 GMT

Thank you so much for your help! I looked at a previous post in the Communities and, indeed, I am using double quotes (not single quotes).

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

novinosrin — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:08:46 GMT

is alam a dataset name or the folder name that has the datasets?

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

Reeza — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:11:36 GMT

Are you using SAS University Edition?

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

jjadalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:48:24 GMT

alam is a folder that has datasets in it.

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

jjadalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:48:41 GMT

Yes

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:44:09 GMT

PLEASE follow the instructions and tutorials for SAS UE.

University Edition runs in a Linux virtual machine, and it can only "see" the shared folder you defined while setting up the VM. If you followed the instructions, this is found as /folders/myfolders in UE.

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

jjadalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:31:05 GMT

Thank you Kurt. I tried the following:

libname test "C:\Users\Owner\Dropbox\Desktop\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders";
run;

and that didn't work either.

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

Reeza — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:08:44 GMT

It should be

/folders/myfolders/

This is because SAS is actually running on a VM working on your desktop and /folders/ is the path to where you've set the virtual machine to share that folder. If you search SAS UE and lib name or path on here you'll find a lot of similar questions.

Re: SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

jjadalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:40:00 GMT

Outstanding - thank you so much Reeza!

God bless you and your family!!!

Jadallah