topic Re: Problem with import table in SAS Programming

Problem with import table

GianlucaS — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:30:21 GMT

I have a problem with a sample program as below:

title "Stock Inventory by Type";
data WORK.IMPORT1;
proc freq data=WORK.IMPORT1;
tables Sector / nocum;
run;
title;

IMPORT1 is a table imported with the "import" function, but when I lunch the program the system output:

"Impossible open the table "WORK.IMPORT1" because it doesn't contain columns.

If I go to the table I can see the data (6000 rows) but if I go to the "properties" - columns there are not columns displayed. Where is the problem (I'm novice with SAS, I'm using University Edition on Amazon AWS)? I understand is a problem in the importing procedure...

Thanks!

Re: Problem with import table

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:45:13 GMT

What do you mean by "go to the table"?

Run a

proc contents data=work.import1;
run;

and look at the output.

And run the import again and post the log (use the {i} icon to preserve formatting).

Re: Problem with import table

Reeza — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:34:23 GMT

When you ran your import what was in the log

Re: Problem with import table

Shmuel — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 20:18:26 GMT

Any data step ends either by RUN; or by a new data step or by PROC...;

your code:

title "Stock Inventory by Type";
data WORK.IMPORT1; /* <<<< this line destroys your import and creates a table with no columns ! */
proc freq data=WORK.IMPORT1;
tables Sector / nocum;
run;
title;

Re: Problem with import table

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 06:13:15 GMT

Good catch, @Shmuel!