topic infile statement issue in SAS Procedures

infile statement issue

ojoseph — Wed, 31 May 2017 20:44:49 GMT

proc import datafile= "‪C:\Users\Desktop\bankmarketing.csv"
out=bankmarketing
dbms=csv
replace;
delimiter=';';
getnames=yes;
run;

Error: physical file does not exist.

Error: import unsuccessful

Re: infile statement issue

ballardw — Wed, 31 May 2017 21:29:39 GMT

Are you working with a server? The file path would have to be visible from the server.

Which version of SAS are you running? University Edition uses 1) Linux path descriptions and 2) the file system starts with the shared folder and not the desktop, the file would have to be in the shared folder set up in the VM AND file path and names are case sensitive.

Generally "desktops" are very poor places for data files. Learn your file system and put them somewhere meaningful. And doesn't "USERS" have an actual user name afterwards?

Re: infile statement issue

ojoseph — Wed, 31 May 2017 22:51:40 GMT

the datasets is taking from uci machine learning. i don't know why am find it difficult to access the data.

Re: infile statement issue

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:26:24 GMT

If you are using SAS UE or a server-based SAS, this:

proc import datafile= "‪C:\Users\Desktop\bankmarketing.csv"

can never work, as neither the UE virtual machine nor a server can "see" your C: drive.

So it is now essential that you reveal which SAS environment you are using.

Re: infile statement issue

mkeintz — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:09:20 GMT

Are you missing a userid in the path (as in MYUSERID below)?

Usually it would be "c:\users\MYUSERID\Desktop\bankmarketing.csv"

Re: infile statement issue

ojoseph — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:40:57 GMT

Thank you for concern. I changed my datasets to German credit. I have finished the task already.