topic Re: ERROR: Libname LIBNAME is not assigned in SAS Studio

ERROR: Libname LIBNAME is not assigned

francisca — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:28:55 GMT

options pagesize=60 linesize=80 pageno=1 nodate;
/*libname mylib '/folders/myfolders/sasuser.v94/File -Debug.xlsx'; */


libname mylib "/folders/myfolders/My office.sas";

data mylib.office;
	infile '/folders/myfolders/My office.sas';
	
run;

proc print data= mylib.office;
	title 'my office details'
run;

Re: ERROR: Libname LIBNAME is not assigned

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:56:34 GMT

This:

libname mylib "/folders/myfolders/My office.sas";

can never work. A SAS library (in a UNIX environment, which you have with SAS University Edition) must always be a directory, not a file.

So do

libname mylib "/folders/myfolders";

instead.

As a further hint, avoid filenames with blanks. A blank is the natural separator of objects and should be used to identify separate files, but not as part of a file (or directory) name.

It is of course possible to use it, but an underline is much easier instead.

Re: ERROR: Libname LIBNAME is not assigned

Reeza — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 07:26:42 GMT

Your code should look something like the following assuming you have a SAS dataset called office in the folder myfolders.

libname mylib "/folders/myfolders/";

proc print data= mylib.office;
title 'my office details'
run;