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This statement is supported only by the IML procedure.

The PACKAGE LIBNAME statement creates a SAS libref that points to the data directory for a package. You must load a package before you can use the PACKAGE LIBNAME statement.

You must specify the following arguments:

The PACKAGE LIBNAME statement is used to access data in a package. For examples, the following statements read data from the AboveBelow package, which is installed in the SYSTEM collection:

package load AboveBelow;
package libname ABdata AboveBelow;
/* use the libref to read data that the package provides */
use ABdata.example;
   read all var _NUM_ into X[colname=varNames];
close ABdata.example;
print varNames;

The READ statement reads the numerical variables into the matrix . Figure 306 shows that the example data set contains numerical variables named x1, x2, and x3.

You must specify exactly one package in the PACKAGE LIBNAME statement.