topic Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2) in Statistical Procedures

ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

vkrishna — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:50:44 GMT

Hello all,

Any suggestions about this error?

proc freq data=case noprint;
table num*other*crecpt / out=recpt;
table num*other*srecpt / out=recpt;
run;

ERROR:  An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:

The SAS task name is [FREQ (2)]
ERROR:  Write Access Violation FREQ (2)
Exception occurred at (08BE672C)
Task Traceback
Address   Frame     (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
0000000008BE672C  00000000094EBAA0  sasfreq:tkvercn1+0x656EC
0000000008BA0549  00000000094ECE30  sasfreq:tkvercn1+0x1F509
0000000008B844D4  00000000094EFBE0  sasfreq:tkvercn1+0x3494
0000000001DAA066  00000000094EFBE8  sashost:Main+0x11BA6
0000000001DB011D  00000000094EFF50  sashost:Main+0x17C5D
00007FFE01FD13D2  00000000094EFF58  KERNEL32:BaseThreadInitThunk+0x22
00007FFE02E054F4  00000000094EFF88  ntdll:RtlUserThreadStart+0x34

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

Reeza — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:15:52 GMT

Usually that's a connection issue. Restart SAS and see if it goes away.

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

Astounding — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:17:22 GMT

You have used the same name for both output data sets. Can't do that .... just change out of the names on out=.

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

vkrishna — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:20:14 GMT

We used different names for datasets. It's a mistake when posting in the community.

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

SASKiwi — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:12:32 GMT

Does it work for a subset of your data?

proc freq data=case (obs = 100) noprint;
table num*other*crecpt / out=recpt;
table num*other*srecpt / out=recpt;
run;

For less levels in your data (remove one or two variables).

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

ballardw — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:07:27 GMT

@vkrishna wrote:
We used different names for datasets. It's a mistake when posting in the community.

Perhaps you should then post the actual code submitted.

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:02:10 GMT

What are the cardinalities of your variables? You may have run out of memory resources.

Re: ERROR: Write Access Violation FREQ (2)

jniemira — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:51:55 GMT

I got a similar error and traced it back to a text by variable. I got around it by removing the variable (it was redundant with different numeric variable in my case). My guess is that it was a buffer overrun caused by the length of the text. Do any of your variables contain a long string?