topic Error Msg in SAS Procedures

Error Msg

rdbug — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 00:44:31 GMT

I am a fairly new SAS user and I am working on a research project. I downloaded what I thought was an SAS file and stored it on the server. I also created a .sas7bdat file. After completing the code and running in SAS, I get three errors

ERROR: Missing FMTNAME variable.

ERROR: Missing START variable.

ERROR: Missing LABEL variable.

Not sure what they mean or how to resolve so I can run my code. Any suggestions?

rdbug

Re: Error Msg

Astounding — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 03:39:40 GMT

It means that code you are running contains a line like this:

proc format cntlin=SomeDataset;

And the dataset does not contain the proper structure that PROC FORMAT is looking for. Unfortunately, this is not a good place to begin learning SAS ... it's at least an intermediate-level topic.

Re: Error Msg

rdbug — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 03:59:15 GMT

Is there anything that can be done to remedy this? I downloaded a .dat file. I was able to convert to two .sas7bdat.

Robin