topic Re: I keep getting this error (ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided) in SAS Programming

I keep getting this error (ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided)

Yusuf10 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:11:59 GMT

I keep getting this error in my Log

ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided.

Here is my code and the file is attached below

Proc import datafile="C:\Users\yusco\OneDrive\Desktop\STAT 5200 HW9 Data Files\JobPrefix.csv";
   dbms=csv
   out = HW9.JobPrefix replace;
   guessingrows= 100;
run;

Re: I keep getting this error (ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided)

PaigeMiller — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:13:09 GMT

You don't want to have a semi-colon at the far right of line 1.

Re: I keep getting this error (ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided)

Yusuf10 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:16:47 GMT

This is what i got after i removed the semi colon

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

58 Proc import datafile="C:\\Users\\yusco\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\STAT 5200 HW9 Data

58 ! Files\\jobAcct.csv"

59 dbms=csv

60 out = HW9.JobAcct replace;

61 getnames=yes;

62 run;

ERROR: Library name is not assigned.

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

NOTE: PROCEDURE IMPORT used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

64 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

Re: I keep getting this error (ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided)

Reeza — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:33:59 GMT

Do you have a LIBNAME statement that creates the HW9 library? It's not in your code?

Re: I keep getting this error (ERROR: Output SAS data set must be provided)

Yusuf10 — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 04:57:21 GMT

Thank you so much, the problem was really my libname. I found a way to go about it and this is the code that works fine for me now.

libname HW9 "C:\Users\yusco\OneDrive\Desktop\STAT5200\HW9";
filename jobAcct "C:/Users/yusco/OneDrive/Desktop/STAT 5200 HW9 Data Files\jobAcct.csv";
Proc import datafile= jobAcct
   dbms=csv
   out = HW9.JobAcct replace;
   getnames=yes;
run;