Hello, I am doing the intro programming course for 9.4 through LinkedIn Learning. It is the same course offered from SAS. The data set up is complex. There are two .zip files. I downloaded and unzipped. In the (very, very long) pathnames created, there was a file for data set up. It wouldn't run because it assumed pathnames for files that were being created, and also seemed to be itself trying to unzip the files. Second, I searched help here and found one thread with a link to a fairly long program that is supposed to be setting up practice data on my local machine. I ran it in SAS Studio. It basically ran and set up a number of data structures in my machines "<username>/My SAS" directory but there were 107 errors due to attempting to write (apparently) to a table in a folder without write access. This should not be that hard. I'm just trying to get the practice data (one file, for example is storm data and the instructor refers to the storm.xlsx file -- I can't find that anywhere). Advice would be appreciated. Thank you. (p.s. I'm kind of surprised these programs would assume path names & just start writing with no prompt to the user, or instructions within the program to set up the desired location.)
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