topic Re: Issues in creating libraries in SAS Programming

Issues in creating libraries

Abastaki — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:12:20 GMT

I'm having an issues creating the pg1 library as instructed in programming essentials, lesson 2 Accessing data.

i know where my files are, i've tried manipulating the path in each way possible (libname pg1 '/folders/myfolders'; As instructed) tried libname pg1 '/folders/myfolders/EPG1V2'; and libname pg1 'folders/myfolder/EPG1V2/data'. I even tried both Virtual machines and i always end up with a PG1 empty library.

I don't know what seems to be the problem.

i'm using Windows 10

SAS university edition

I need all the files to show under PG1 library. how can i get that done??

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:07:11 GMT

Did you run the createdata program?

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Abastaki — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:36:39 GMT

How do I do that??

Re: Issues in creating libraries

AhmedAl_Attar — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:03:17 GMT

in SAS Studio, Click on the "Servers Files & Folders" in the Left Navigation Panel, then browse down to the folder of your course programs, double click on the *.sas file, that will open it in SAS Studio, then you submit it

Hope this helps,

Ahmed

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Abastaki — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:49:51 GMT

Thanks for your reply Ahmed,

i do have the files in the server folders as you mentioned. the problem is i can't run any codes because the Library pg1 is empty.

I need the files to be in the pg1 library also, how can i do that?

thanks,

Re: Issues in creating libraries

AhmedAl_Attar — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 20:52:31 GMT

@Abastaki

First - Check the setting on your SAS University Edition Virtual machine

Second - Within SAS Studio, Check the properties of your "My Folder"

Third - Ensure using correct paths in your libname statements, based on the information gathered from the above two pics

i.e.

Physically on my Personal desktop, I have placed all my SAS related files under

This PC\Documents\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders\.......

In SAS Studio that would translate to

/folders/myfolders/......

Therefore, as long as you have physically placed all your SAS related contents under C:\.....\myfolders\, you can reference it in SAS Studio as /folders/myfolders/<DirectoryName>/<file name>

Your pg1 library has to be defined as

LIBNAME pg1 "/folders/myfolders/EPG1V2/data";

I think, you'll need to open and modify This PC\Documents\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders\EPG1V2\createdata.sas

and make sure to use the same path as in the above libname statement, in order to create the sample data sets there.

Hope this clarify it for you.

Ahmed

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Abastaki — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:28:56 GMT

Appreciate your help Ahmed,

After going thru the steps you kindly provided everything seems to be in line here.

The Virtual Machine's Path is set correctly, Folder property also. Even the library path is correctly defined but i'm still encountering errors.

Re: Issues in creating libraries

AhmedAl_Attar — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:36:43 GMT

Did you modify & run/submit the createdata.sas file?

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Abastaki — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:52:04 GMT

Yes, as mentioned in the instructions.

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 23:29:58 GMT

Hi:
Please watch THIS video:
https://youtu.be/5vfd_jt8ttc and then go back to the Course Overview and Data Setup section in the course and make sure you follow ALL the instructions to make the data for the class. It is NOT just enough to unzip the zip file contents into your shared folder location. You MUST run the data creation program.
At the end of the video, you will see that there are 5 subfolders underneath the EPG1V2 folder location: activities, data, demos, output and practices. The PG1 library just points to the data subfolder and should have quite a few (over 20! ) SAS data sets in the folder.
The fact that you do not see data in the PG1 library makes me suspect that either you don't have your shared folders set up correct or you did not follow all the instructions as shown in the video.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia

Re: Issues in creating libraries

Reeza — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:51:01 GMT

Show the log from that first line of code only - from your first post. That should be the correct version, assuming you've set up everything correctly.

Re: Issues in creating libraries

AhmedAl_Attar — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:05:11 GMT

Couldn't be more clearer than this!