I would be very grateful for anyone who can help me understand why I'm getting this error
ERROR: There are no valid observations. Could be caused by SUMVAR= or FREQ= variable.
GOPTIONS RESET = ALL;
ODS HTML FILE="C:\SASDATA\carsM.HTM";
PROC MEANS DATA= "C:\SASDATA\cars" MAXDEC=2 N MEAN STD;
VAR brand citympg;
WHERE brand="mazda";
TITLE 'Summary for GROUP A';
RUN;
ODS HTML FILE="C:\SASDATA\carsT.HTM";
PROC MEANS DATA= "C:\SASDATA\cars" MAXDEC=2 N MEAN STD;
VAR brand citympg;
WHERE brand="toyota";
TITLE 'Summary for GROUP B';
RUN;
ODS HTML FILE="C:\SASDATA\carsH.HTM";
PROC MEANS DATA= "C:\SASDATA\cars" MAXDEC=2 N MEAN STD;
VAR brand citympg;
WHERE brand="honda";
TITLE 'Summary for GROUP C';
RUN;
*.......................................CREATE THE BARCHART;
DATA BARCHART;SET "C:\SASDATA\SOMEDATA";
LENGTH HTMLLINK $40;
IF brand="mazda" THEN HTMLLINK='HREF="carsM.HTM"';
IF brand="toyota" THEN HTMLLINK='HREF="carsT.HTM"';
IF brand="honda" THEN HTMLLINK='HREF="carsH.HTM"';
ODS HTML FILE="C:\SASDATA\GCHART.HTM" GPATH="C:\SASDATA\";
ODS LISTING CLOSE;
PROC GCHART;
HBAR brand/ HTML=HTMLLINK;
TITLE 'Summary information for each GP.';
RUN; QUIT;
ODS HTML CLOSE;
ODS LISTING;
WHERE brand="toyota";
Check the case of your brand, it needs to match exactly.
Typically you can try and make everything upper or lower case.
where upcase(brand)="TOYOTA";
And for the rest of the brand= comparisons.
WHERE brand="toyota";
Check the case of your brand, it needs to match exactly.
Typically you can try and make everything upper or lower case.
where upcase(brand)="TOYOTA";
And for the rest of the brand= comparisons.
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