ERROR: Cannot create PROC FORMAT style format with the same name as an Institute-supplied format

xiaolufan — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:56:33 GMT

Dear all,

When I tried to import the dataset, there is an error keep showing, which is:

I was also tried to remove the previous format, but it still does not working.

Here is my log file:

(I use the University edition)

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

56 proc import datafile ='/folders/myfolders/project/09836-0002-Data/'

57 dbms=sav

58 out=dataset2

59 replace;

60 run;

ERROR: Cannot create PROC FORMAT style format with the same name as an Institute-supplied format

NOTE: The import data set has 10258 observations and 495 variables.

NOTE: WORK.DATASET2 data set was successfully created.

NOTE: PROCEDURE IMPORT used (Total process time):

real time 1.21 seconds

cpu time 0.80 seconds

62 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

Can anyone help me to solve this problem, I will be appreciate.

Re: ERROR: Cannot create PROC FORMAT style format with the same name as an Institute-supplied format

Reeza — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:43:54 GMT

Interesting, I wonder if there's a way to get around this.

This may be one option:

Option nofmterr;

And/or try using DBMS=SPSS instead of SAV

This seems to be the current standard.

And lastly, try specifying a format library.

See example 3 here: