Program Error

[seamoh]

Hello all the members, I hope you are very well.

I run the following program

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title "Statistics from Sales Spreadsheet";
libname Read '/folders/myfolders/Dataset/Wages.xls';
proc means data=Read.'Permanent$' n mean;
var Wage Hours_Worked;
run;

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and here is the errors in the log:

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OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

72

73 *6-3*;

74 title "Statistics from Sales Spreadsheet";

75 libname Read '/folders/myfolders/Dataset/Wages.xls';

ERROR: Library READ is not in a valid format for access method RANDOM.

ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

76 /* proc means data='/folders/myfolders/Dataset/Wages'.'Permanent$'n mean; */

77 proc means data=Read.'Permanent$' n mean;

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22

200

ERROR: Invalid data set name Read..

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, (, ALPHA, CHARTYPE, CLASSDATA, CLM, COMPLETETYPES, CSS, CV, DATA,

DESCEND, DESCENDING, DESCENDTYPES, EXCLNPWGT, EXCLNPWGTS, EXCLUSIVE, FW, IDMIN, INCAS, KURTOSIS, LCLM, MAX, MAXDEC,

MEAN, MEDIAN, MIN, MISSING, MODE, N, NDEC, NMISS, NOLABELS, NONOBS, NOPRINT, NOTHREADS, NOTRAP, NWAY, ORDER, P1, P10,

P20, P25, P30, P40, P5, P50, P60, P70, P75, P80, P90, P95, P99, PCTLDEF, PRINT, PRINTALL, PRINTALLTYPES, PRINTIDS,

PRINTIDVARS, PROBT, Q1, Q3, QMARKERS, QMETHOD, QNTLDEF, QRANGE, RANGE, SKEWNESS, STACKODS, STACKODSOUTPUT, STDDEV,

STDERR, SUM, SUMSIZE, SUMWGT, T, THREADS, UCLM, USS, VAR, VARDEF.

ERROR 200-322: The symbol is not recognized and will be ignored.

78 var Wage Hours_Worked;

ERROR: No data set open to look up variables.

ERROR: No data set open to look up variables.

79 run;

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

NOTE: PROCEDURE MEANS used (Total process time):

real time 0.10 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

80

81 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

93

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Thank you very much,

Deeply appreciated.

I am looking forward to your answers.

[Shmuel]

Open file Wages.xls with excel and save it , if possible, as an xlsx  type,

then change the code to read the Wages.xlsx file and try.

Otherwise you need to assign FILENAME the the Wages.xls file with "excel" engine,

import it and only afterwards you can rub proc means on the sas dataset.

[Tom]

There is no libname engine to read XLS format files.  There is one for XLSX files.  But even then you should get in the habit of telling the libname statement what engine to use when you don't want to use the normal base SAS engine, instead of forcing it to guess.

libname read xlsx '/folders/myfolders/Dataset/Wages.xlsx';

If you are forced to use the XLS file then you will need to use PROC IMPORT to get the data converted into a SAS dataset.