SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Determine Whether You Have Write Access

If you are using SAS Studio or SAS University Edition, you might not have Write access to the Sasuser directory where the sample data is stored.

Note: If you are using the SAS windowing environment or SAS Enterprise Guide, you can skip this section.

Submit the following code:

proc options option=rsasuser;
run;

If the result from the OPTIONS procedure code is NORSASUSER, the Sasuser folder is writable.

If the result from the PROC OPTIONS code is RSASUSER, the Sasuser folder is Read only, and you must redirect the Sasuser folder by using a LIBNAME statement. To set up practice data:

1. In the Folders pane, select My Folders. Then, right-click and select New>Folder.
2. In the Name box, enter a folder ...