HI I came across this statement and want to know what BASE option doing.
libname HOME BASE "~";
According to the documentation this part of the libname statement declares the engine.
Base is the default standard SAS engine.
According to the documentation this part of the libname statement declares the engine.
Base is the default standard SAS engine.
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.
Thank you for your help
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