topic Re: library properties indicate invalid while it was created one day ago in SAS Studio

library properties indicate invalid while it was created one day ago

Esmatullah — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:19:35 GMT

Hi there,

I am an absolute newbie in programming and in SAS. I am taking an essential e-learning course right now to familiarize myself with the basics.

I created the PG1 library yesterday as it was required by the course. Today, I wanted to write a journal about my learning, but I was stuck in creating a library section. I wanted to provide an example of what I have learned but it did not work. I used both localhost and the SAS Studio server. In both cases, I received errors in my log and I wanted to change the path of PG1 and that showed invalid.

Please help me what is the problem. I want to use this activity as an example of my self-study journal.

Thanks,

Esmat

Re: library properties indicate invalid while it was created one day ago

ballardw — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:35:36 GMT

When you have a question about errors the best thing with this forum is to copy the code and error messages from the log and paste into a code box opened on the forum using the {I} icon.

You should also describe your SAS environment.

Unless you use one of the options, depends on SAS environment, to create permanent libraries the reference for a library will only exist for that session.

And with servers, again depending on environment, you may not be able to use simple code to reference a disk location on your computer as the Server likely 1) does not have permissions to generally use your computer and 2) paths in code would tend to be in reference to the Server and C:\ would be the Server drive, not yours.

Re: library properties indicate invalid while it was created one day ago

Esmatullah — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:04:56 GMT

Thanks for the recommendation. I made a mistake attaching those errors as a file which do not appear in my question.

the code:

libname pg1 "FILEPATH";

the log:

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

73 libname pg1 "FILEPATH";

NOTE: Library PG1 does not exist.

76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

The Path to replace with the FILEPATH:

/folders/myfolders/EPG194/data";

Re: library properties indicate invalid while it was created one day ago

ballardw — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:26:12 GMT

@Esmatullah wrote:

Thanks for the recommendation. I made a mistake attaching those errors as a file which do not appear in my question.

the code:

libname pg1 "FILEPATH";

the log:

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

72

73 libname pg1 "FILEPATH";

NOTE: Library PG1 does not exist.

74

75

76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

The Path to replace with the FILEPATH:
/folders/myfolders/EPG194/data";
 

The syntax for your library was incorrect as the actual value of the file path needs to appear between the quotes.

libname pg1 "/folders/myfolders/EPG194/data";