activity p101a03.sas

[Aishabashir]

Hello, 

On lesson 1, the first activity says to access activity p101a03.sas from the activities folder. where do i find the activities folder from?

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:
The activities folder is either in a zip archive that you have to download or it is created for you by a program that you have to download and run.
How you make the activities folder will depend on how you are using SAS.
In the Course Overview and Data Setup section of the Programming 1 course, there is a topic on doing the Setup for the class. The instructions that you follow here should correspond to how you are using SAS and you'll need to follow all of the instructions for your method of using SAS in order to make all the data and get the folders with the programs inside.
Please refer to THIS page: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/How-to-access-data-for-SAS-Programming-1-cour... there's a video for each method of using SAS that shows exactly how to get all the folders and all the data for class.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia

[Aishabashir]

Thankyou! 

I did exactly what you said. however I am unable to upload the ''data'' file on SAS as the size of the file is too large to upload onto SAS.

In the Course overview and Data setup (required). I'm doing the SAS studio steps from setting up your files. Im doing task 1 of 3, following steps 3-10 on ' set up instructions for SAS on demand for academics ', from the SAS studio. I am following the steps from 3-10.

However, when i reach step 8, SAS says that the files in the 'data' folder are larger than 10MB, therefore I can not upload the 'data' folder onto SAS. 

I did not have this problem with any of the other folders, just this folder. I also did steps 9 and 10, and that was done with no issues. It was just step 8. Hope you could help please.

The message shown was this:

''The size of the uploaded files cannot be greater than 10 MB. The size of the selected files is 37.4 MB. ''

Hope to hear from you soon.

[Panagiotis]

It sounds like you are using SAS On Demand For Academics. Can you confirm? Make sure you download the correct files. For SAS On Demand Academics you should be downloading from here:

You should only be uploading one file, a SAS program (again, if you are using SAS on Demand for Academics):

You will upload that file. That program will create everything you need. Select the link Cynthia sent and watch the video for SAS on Demand for Academics. After you run that program it creates everything.

If that doesn't work can you share some screenshots to help us determine your issue?

- Peter

[Aishabashir]

I did exactly what was said in the email, thanks. 

However, when I am trying to do the first activity from lesson 2, which says 

• In SAS Studio, open your EPG194/data folder,
• Double-click the storm_summary.sas7bdat SAS table to view it. How are missing character and numeric values represented in the data?

There is no SAS table called '' storm_summary.sas7bdat '' in my data file.

A screenshot is provided showing you all of the SAS tables that i have.

Hope to hear from you soon.

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:

  Did you follow ALL the instructions for making the data using SAS OnDemand for Academics? You need to use the zip file for SAS OnDemand for Acadmeics and you need to follow ALL the instructions. If you followed any other instructions, they are likely fail or not result in the files you need.

  You need to run the program, as shown in the SAS OnDemand video, https://youtu.be/8sI_UsNvIHE  at time stamp 0:48 in #7. The name of the program, as shown in #7 in the instructions is createdataPG1_oda.sas and after you run the program, as shown at time stamp 4:03, you should see results of the PROC CONTENTS, which show that the SAS data sets used in the course have been successfully created.

  At time stamp, 5:51, as shown in the video, and in the screen shot below:

you can see the storm_summary data table does appear in the table of contents at the end of the creation process.(sorry the screen shot is fuzzy -- taking a screen shot of a video doesn't result in the best resolution).

  Did you run the createdataPG1_oda.sas program successfully? If not, my recommendation is that you watch the video and make sure that you have followed ALL the steps to make the data files for the course.

Hope this helps,

Cynthia

[Aishabashir]

The youtube video worked and I did as it said. Thanks!

[aacheson]

I followed this video to a T and I am getting error messages. It says 

ERROR: No logical assign for filename UNZIP.

ERROR: ************************************************************

Path specified for data files (/home/sasdemo/EPG194) is not valid.

Remember: PATH values in UNIX and LINUX are case sensitive.

************************************************************

I am using a windows 10 laptop and I have unzipped the file with winzip. I can't get it to work. I am using SAS on demand, not university addition and my file pathway says http://localhost:10080/SASStudio/38/main?locale=en_US&zone=GMT-04%253A00&http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A10...

if that helps anything. 

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:

  If you are seeing localhost:10080 in your URL bar, you are NOT using SAS OnDemand for Academics. You are using SAS University Edition with Virtual Box. I am guessing that you start Virtual Box and then start University Edition Virtual Machine. Then you type localhost:10080 in a browser window.

  The error message you report is exactly the error message that happens when a University Edition student follows the OnDemand instructions. You MUST follow the University Edition instructions. The OnDemand instructions do NOT work. The UNZIP error message happens because when you are using University Edition you are operating on the outside of the SAS network. For OnDemand students, we have a zip file internally that we can download to their machine with code and issue an unzip for the downloaded file. This technique ONLY works from INSIDE the SAS network. So the error message is issued for any other method of using SAS.

  Please delete the zip file and program that you're getting the error message with. If you follow the correct University Edition instructions, then my guess is that you will be successful making the data for the Programming 1 class.

Hope this helps,

Cynthia

[mmfeliciano]

I am confronting the same issue, I followed all the University Edition instructions, I can see all the videos and do the quizzes, but I do not have access to the activities files to practice those activities... I do not know if this occurs always with this version or if it only happens to me.
I hope that you can help me... Thanks.

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:

  You MUST follow ALL the instructions for SAS University Edition in the Course Overview and Data Setup section of the course. This is BEFORE Lesson 1, BEFORE you have any demo or activity to do with the class data. There are several different sets of SETUP instructions. Which one did you follow?

  When you first go into the course, you should see THIS:

Then you listen to the videos in the section and finally you get to the REQUIRED SETUP, and you have to scroll past #1 to #2 where you will see the choices for instructions, as shown below:

When you open those instructions, there are multiple steps to follow. You must follow ALL the instructions.

When you open SAS University Edition, you can check whether everything worked correctly by expanding the My Folders top icon and looking for the Programming 1 folder you created. The name should be EPG1V2. If you followed the instructions correctly, then under that class folder, there should be subfolders with names like: activities, data, demos, output, practices. If you do NOT have a class folder under the My Folders location, then you did not follow the instructions all the way through or you did not follow the right instructions.

Here's the University Edition video for the current version of the course:  http://youtu.be/5vfd_jt8ttc?hd=1

Please watch the video. This shows an instructor doing ALL the steps for the setup on University Edition.

Hope this helps,

Cynthia

[mmfeliciano]

I do not know why the first time I set up the SAS University Edition the "Setting Up Your Practice Files (REQUIRED)" option does not appear. I erase all and did all again. I could follow the instructions in that link and now I can see the activities in SAS Studio. Thank you very much for your help.