Great! The whole libname/filename statement was like a black box to me earlier. It is this mapping information that was the missing piece of information which clarifies everything. Thanks again. ... View more

Hi Cynthia,    I really appreciate your time and effort. It was very helpful. I have taken the programming 1 course but it explains everything using SAS windowing environment and so I was not sure what part of it is applicable to the UE. My intention to access a raw dataset in SAS is just to have a little bit of flexibility and to know if it is really possible though not necessary. Moreover, though I can use the prep guide with the data already created by the method suggested, it would be nice to be able to access the data in the C drive. I feel that this constraint in UE is really a handicap. Is there a SAS client application which doesn't have any such limitations? Amithabh ... View more

Thanks a lot Cynthia. I have a few more questions: 1) I tried to open the file in a proc print step but in vain. Is it possible to view the newclass.txt using a proc print step? How to access the data in the certprep folder in general? 2) What about the write privileges to work and sashelp library in University Ed.?Is it the same as sasuser library? 3) I see that there is an option to create a new library. Is it possible to create one with write previleges? ... View more

ballardw wrote: The SASUSER library should already exist in a SAS install, so I wouldn't try re-assigning it. You can find the actual path to the sasuser library using: Data _null_;      length path $ 200;      path= pathname(SASUSER,L);      put path=; run; put the value of the path in place of c:\myfiles in outfile='c:\myfiles\class'. I would recommend putting an extension on the file CLASS such as .txt. I tried to find the path using your code but the log message had path = blank but managed to find it directly from the properties of the sasuser library. Now that I have the dataset in the sasuser library, how can I see the contents of the newly created mydata.csv file without directly going to the library. I tried doing, proc print data=sasuser.mydata; run; but get an error: ERROR: File SASUSER.MYDATA.DATA does not exist. ... View more

Reeza wrote: You save a dataset by using LIBNAME.DATANAME where libname is the location of where you want to save the file and DATANAME is the name of the dataset. An example based on your sasuser library is here: data sasuser.class; set sashelp.class; run; But the above procedure creates another SAS dataset in the sasuser library, right? But I would like to create a raw data file(like a .csv file). ... View more

ballardw wrote: I think you may need to define what you are looking for by "raw data". Do you mean a flat text file or another SAS dataset? If you are looking to build a text file then proc export may be the simplest. I tried exporting but get an error: proc export data=sashelp.class   outfile='c:\myfiles\class'   dbms=dlm;   delimiter='&'; run; ERROR: Insufficient authorization to access /opt/sasinside/SASConfig/Lev1/SASApp/c:\myfiles\class. ... View more