topic The EXCEL engine cannot be found. in SAS Programming

The EXCEL engine cannot be found.

Chikku — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:54:34 GMT

I am getting this error while executing the below code:-The EXCEL engine cannot be found.

libname lib excel ' E:\GEETHA\Geetha_Practicing\OUTPUT\report.xlsx ' ;

SAS 9.1, Excel 2007 are used.

Thank you

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:57:38 GMT

- Your SAS session needs to run on Windows.

- You need to have the "SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files" module licensed.

What is your setup, and what do you want to achieve?

Reeza — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:30:43 GMT

In addition to the above comments:

SAS 9.1 does not support Excel 2007 - you cannot create an XLSX file.

There are workarounds provided in the link.

This version of SAS is almost 13 years old. If you're using SAS for learning try SAS University Edition instead which is SAS 9.4

Chikku — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:58:47 GMT

Thank you all for your help :), the information provided is so helpful.