topic Re: The format ____ was not found or could not be loaded in SAS Programming

The format ____ was not found or could not be loaded

bknight — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:44:46 GMT

Hi,

I am fairly new to sas. I have received a sas datafile from my work site and would like to work on analyzing it. I sent the data to myself via email (personal computer has SAS, computers at site do not), but when i go to open the data i receive the message "The format ____ was not found or could not be loaded" for all of the variables.

I am using the code:

libname wcc 'C:\Users\14437\Documents\GradSchool\Practicum\Data\Data';
data wcc;
set wcc.data;
run;

The data file I am attempting to open is a .sas7bdat file.

Any idea of how to remedy this? I do have a formats file, but i'm not sure how to use it.

Re: The format ____ was not found or could not be loaded

PaigeMiller — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:47:27 GMT

Use this as the first line of your SAS program.

options nofmterr;

Also see this thread https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-share-SAS-data-set-with-custom-formats/td-p/598100

Re: The format ____ was not found or could not be loaded

bknight — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:52:49 GMT

Worked like a charm, thank you.