topic Re: referencing lib name trouble in SAS Programming

referencing lib name trouble

iressa131 — Tue, 22 May 2018 02:16:42 GMT

hello I'm fairly new and am trying to designate a libname but keep getting the error:

The path /Users/sana/Desktop/Spring II/LMS/SAS data is not in the list of accessible paths when SAS is in

the lockdown state.

ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

the path is copied from the file information and I can see the folder "SAS data" and the dataset I want within it in the side panel under "folder shortcuts" but don't know how to access it.

here is the code i am using thanks for any help!

LIBNAME LM '/Users/sana/Desktop/Spring II/LMS/SAS data/'; 
proc print LM.hw4q2; 
run;

Re: referencing lib name trouble

ChrisNZ — Tue, 22 May 2018 02:34:13 GMT

Did you see this?

Re: referencing lib name trouble

Shmuel — Tue, 22 May 2018 06:24:16 GMT

Can you rename your subfolders and replace all spaces (' ') into underscore ('_') ?

If possible do it and check does it fix the problem.

Are you using SAS University Edition ?

Re: referencing lib name trouble

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 22 May 2018 09:08:30 GMT

/Users points to a Mac, so I guess you are using SAS UE on that Mac. The ONLY folder you have access to in SAS UE is the shared folder you defined when setting up the virtual machine. You CANNOT access any host-system folders outside this shared folder.

Place your data in the Mac folder you defined as the shared folder, and use /folders/myfolder inside the UE VM.

All this supposes you set up your VM correctly according to the documentation, of course.

Re: referencing lib name trouble

Reeza — Tue, 22 May 2018 15:23:59 GMT

The ONLY folder you have access to in SAS UE is the shared folder you defined when setting up the virtual machine. You CANNOT access any host-system folders outside this shared folder.

You can set up multiple shared folders on SAS UE to anywhere on your desktop, including a DropBox or OneDrive folder.

Then you access it as:

'/folders/myshortcuts/NAME'

where NAME is the name you provided in the set up in Oracle VirtualBox.

Re: referencing lib name trouble

Tom — Tue, 22 May 2018 15:50:02 GMT

If you can see the path in the GUI file explorer tool in SAS/Studio then right click on it and select PROPERTIES and you will see that path that SAS can use to reference it.