I've been searching for an answer on the Internet for the past few days and couldn't find any, so I'm posting the question here. Is there any way I can read SAS datasets that are stored in OneDrive without downloading or synchronizing it?
Is there any libname statement?
I don't use OneDrive, so I don't know how it works. But if you have a direct web-address like: onedrive.com/username/file.sas7bdat, then I know a code for importing Excel dataset. But I might work for SAS dataset too, at least you can try. The code is from the website.
FILENAME website url "http://www2.census.gov/acs2005/Tables_Profiles_Subject_Tables/010Nation/United%20States.xls" debug;
PROC IMPORT OUT= Readin DATAFILE= website
RUN;
You can not read a dataset without downloading it.
You need to map a local drive to your OneDrive account. There is a description of the process here. When this is done, you can apply a normal BASE engine libname statement to that drive.
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I am trying to copy files from a folder on a SAS server to my local computer, I am trying to run the following codes connected to the server, and also disconnected from the server, but I am not getting positive results.
infile '/SASPrueba/Prueba_ALH/Libro1.xlsx';
file '/C:/Test/Libro1.xlsx';
input;
put _infile_;
run;
%sysExec move "\SASPrueba\Prueba_ALH\" "\C:\Test\";
I would appreciate if anyone knows how to perform this copying.
Most of the time, the SAS server cannot access your local machine's disks, unless you've set up a network share, which is not the case in most settings. You should instead use a network folder that both you and the SAS server can see, and place them there.
However, if you have access to Enterprise Guide, there is a task that lets you do this: the Copy Files task. It's built into SAS Enterprise Guide as of 7.13 (late 2017).
SAS Studio also has a similar option built in, "upload" and "download" in the Server Files and Folders tab.
You cannot execute either of these directly through SAS code, though - these are both point-and-click options.
If you really want to use SAS to do this rather than using an SFTP tool as per Tom's suggestion, you could try proc download:
rsubmit yourserver;
proc download
infile = '/SASPrueba/Prueba_ALH/Libro1.xlsx'
outfile = 'C:\Test\Libro1.xlsx'
binary
;
run;
endrsubmit;
Does anyone know if you can connect Looker directly to a SAS table/server? or would you use a work-around to upload the SAS data to a SQL server, then connect Looker to that?
The SAS dataset (analogous to a table) is in a proprietary, binary format. If you have SAS Access to OleDb or ODBC, I would upload the table from SAS and not bother using a SAS format.
You must have SAS Access to upload the dataset from SAS, however, otherwise you are facing how to read a SAS dataset outside of SAS issue. Let us know what you have, in terms of software, so we can help guide a solution.
I'm trying to load data with over 50 million records into Netezza using Aginity. The problem is that my data table is a sas format with extension .sas7bdat that I open on SAS Enterprise Guide. So currently I have a script that transforms the sas files into csv file that I can load into Netezza.
Is there a way that I can load these sas files directly into Netezza without having to convert it to csv? Does Aginity provide an easy method of doing this? Any help would be great, thanks!
I am not sure how can do it Netezza using Aginity but it very simple and easy in SAS enetrprise guideAs You said you have SAS eneterprise guide, please check whether you have SAS/ACCESS to Netezza. To check whether you have an SAS/ACCESS to Netezza then you can use below code in SAS enterprise guide
proc setinit; run;
If you have SAS/Access to Netezza, which probaly you may have it. To code this in SAS Enterprise guide is very easy and you can easily emulate in SAS eneterprise, by using examples shown in the link.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acreldb/63647/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003181092.htm
Byusing libname statement in your SAS enterprise guide and can use proc append or proc sql and also use bulk load as as shown in above link.
I wonder if one of you can help me on how to upload all adventureworks database (every table) into SAS Studio?
I would like to work on adventureworks using sas base
All you need to do is create a libname reference to your database - I don't recommend creating SAS tables from the raw SQL Server data.
Example libref (using OLE DB):
libname &libref OLEDB
PROPERTIES=&sql_properties
DATASOURCE=&sql_dsn
PROVIDER=&sql_provider
SCHEMA=&sql_schema
authdomain="&sql_domain"
connection=shared;
You will need to set the relevant variables as per your environment.
It took a few years.. And the development of sasjs.. But finally, AdventureWorks for SAS is here!
Just run these two lines of code and the 5 AdventureWorks schemas will be created as different libraries under WORK:
filename mc url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sasjs/AdventureWorks/main/runme.sas";
%inc mc;
Just modify that file to make permanent libs / datasets. More info in the readme: https://github.com/sasjs/adventureworks
I'm new to SAS and Enterprise Guide and am having problems getting my head around some basic concepts. Please could someone explain the relationship between libraries, projects, libname and libref? I am following the SAS eLearning course but when I try to link a library with the datafiles stored on my machine I keep getting the message that the library doesn't exist, even though it's right there in the Server List.
Thanks in advance
I'm taking a college level SAS course atm. From what I have learnt, libref is a name in which you associate the physical location of a group of files to SAS.
The libname statement creates a library reference (libref) for a SAS program.
In general, the basic syntax of libname is:
libname libref 'path';
For example:
libname sales 'C:\salesdata\journal\june';
In other words, for SAS to be able to read and write data from a dataset, it must know the directory or folders that contains the particular dataset. SAS calls what we humans call directory or folders as "libraries". SAS also assigns nicknames (libref) to these libraries and use the libname statement to assign the nickname to a specific folder.
For example if you want to print an existing SAS dataset located inside the "june" folder, you can do this:
libname sales 'C:\salesdata\journal\june';
proc print data = sales.revenue;
run;
SAS will print the data portion of the "revenue" dataset that is located inside the "june" folder because we have assigned sales to that folder. Hope this helps.
Particularly if you're using SAS OnDemand for your training (as I assume you are), it's unlikely you will be able to directly assign a libname to your local datafiles. You'd have to provide more information as to the location/etc. of the datafiles you're trying to access to get a better answer, but in general, if you are running SAS on a server (Enterprise Guide is the GUI you're using to connect, SAS itself is the process that actually does the frequencies/etc. and is likely on a server somewhere, in the cloud or in your company's server farm).
The key concept is that a libname must be accessible on the machine running the SAS server instance. While it is possible you might have set up your network such that the server has mapped your local machine's hard disk to a drive, this is not the case in most instances. If you're on a network and you have access to a network drive that the SAS Server also has access to, you could share information that way; but if you are running SAS in the cloud (such as for training/educational purposes with SAS OnDemand), you probably cannot access any shared drives.
Chris Hemedinger (one of the SAS folk who used to work on EG) wrote a custom task, available at this link to help copy files from local desktop to remote server. This may not be helpful with SAS OnDemand, as I think those don't permit copying files up.