"Could not initialize" Error When Using SAS Viya's Model Builder

dbcrow — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:58:38 GMT

Hey, folks-

I'm trying to build a simple pipeline for ensembling logistic regression using the SAS Viya Studio's "Build Model" feature and I get these errors: "This project could not be initialized" and "The data advisor failed to run on the selected data source."

Here's a sample of the log file:

NOTE: Added action set 'cardinality'.
ERROR: Could not load the format YESNO_ALT of the variable ewe.
ERROR: Generic error.
ERROR: Action summarize failed.
ERROR: The action stopped due to errors.
NOTE: PROCEDURE CARDINALITY used (Total process time):
real time 0.17 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds

NOTE: The table DMDSLIB.STATISTICS does not exist in Cloud Analytic Services.
ERROR: File DMDSLIB.STATISTICS.DATA does not exist.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: Due to ERROR(s) above, SAS set option OBS=0, enabling syntax check mode.
This prevents execution of subsequent data modification statements.
WARNING: The data set WORK.STATISTICS may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 0 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.02 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds

ERROR: Variable _VARNAME_ not found.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: PROCEDURE SORT used (Total process time):
real time 0.00 seconds
cpu time 0.00 seconds

ERROR: Variable _VARNAME_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _ORDER_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _CARDINALITY_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _SUMFREQS_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _NMISS_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _MIN_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _MAX_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _STDDEV_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _MEAN_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _NOBS_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _SKEWNESS_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.
ERROR: Variable _KURTOSIS_ is not on file WORK.STATISTICS.

I'm attaching the full log file. My computer is a PC, 64-bit, running Windows Enterprise 10 and SAS Viya is "Data Explorer" release 2.5, SAS Viya release V.03.05.

How can I get the SAS Viya to initialize the project? I'm at my wit's end with SAS Viya. It looks like a really powerful tool for ML, but I've found that even basic things like reading in data are hard to figure out and time-consuming.

Thanks,

David

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