topic Re: Base option in libname statement in SAS Programming

Base option in libname statement

dpa — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:30:57 GMT

HI I came across this statement and want to know what BASE option doing.

libname HOME BASE "~";

Re: Base option in libname statement

LinusH — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:46:02 GMT

According to the documentation this part of the libname statement declares the engine.

Base is the default standard SAS engine.

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/syntaxidx/68719/HTML/default/index.htm#/documentation/cdl//en/lestmtsref/68024/HTML/default/n1nk65k2vsfmxfn1wu17fntzszbp.htm

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl//en/lrcon/68089/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1nuvd4qvxu58on1m8pxdbbyrzrx.htm

Re: Base option in libname statement

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:47:44 GMT

It means that SAS will use the basic SAS dataset format, which means .sas7bdat (or .ssd01 for version 6 and earlier) files. This is the default, but it might be handy if certain filetypes exist in the same directory that might mislead SAS.

Re: Base option in libname statement

dpa — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:06:01 GMT

Thank you for your help