ERROR: Procedure GCHART not found.

[aiden_dataminer]

Hello,

 I am new to SAS as a primarily R user until now. I am working on some basic examples in SAS to get going and the following is my code:

TITLE 'Bar Chart with Discrete Option';
PROC GCHART DATA=auto;
VBAR rep78/ DISCRETE;

RUN;

The result is ERROR: Procedure GCHART not found. Why is this happening?

I do not have the University Edition! I already checked my SAS installation, results here:
Product expiration dates:
---Base SAS Software
14APR2017
---SAS/STAT
14APR2017
---SAS/GRAPH
14APR2017
---SAS/ETS
14APR2017
---SAS/FSP
14APR2017
---SAS/ASSIST
14APR2017
---SAS/CONNECT
14APR2017
---SAS/EIS
14APR2017
---SAS Enterprise Miner
14APR2017
---MDDB Server common products
14APR2017
---SAS Enterprise Guide
14APR2017
---SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files
14APR2017
---SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC
14APR2017
---SAS Enterprise Miner for Desktop
14APR2017
---SAS Workspace Server for Local Access
14APR2017
---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Excel
14APR2017

Thanks for your help.

[Kurt_Bremser]

For a certain module to work in SAS, you must have it installed and licensed; since SAS/GRAPH is licensed, I suspect that your installation was not complete. This might be due to the deployment plan that was used.

Did you do the SAS installation yourself?

[aiden_dataminer]

Nope, IT did the install, is there a way I can check the install ?

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

Yes, run:

proc product_status;
run;

Also, post your error from the log to here, with the full set of code run.

[ChrisHemedinger]

For an even more comprehensive report, run the SAS Install Reporter program that you can find with this SAS note (Downloads tab)

[ChrisHemedinger]

Oh, and one more tip -- if you are just getting started with SAS, I recommend learning PROC SGPLOT instead of GCHART for basic analytical graphs.  Coming from R, you'll find the syntax a little bit cleaner and less verbose.  SGPLOT is part of Base, not SAS/GRAPH.

@Jay54 wrote a nice intro to VBAR in this blog post.  You might also want to check out the SAS Programming for R Users course (free materials here!).

You will want to use the SAS/GRAPH techniques to do more advanced tricks with drilldowns and geo maps, if you have those requirements.

[west2029]

Thank you for the suggestion to use SGPLOT in the University edition.  This helped me solve a problem I was having on my first SAS assignment.  Here is a code snippet to display the syntax difference between SGPLOT and GCHART for a bar graph displaying population percentages:

/** Does not work with the University Edition

proc gchart data=A;                                                                                                               

   vbar 'Place of Birth'n  / freq=number 

    type=percent raxis=axis1 width=9 space=3;             

**/

proc sgplot data=A;

   vbar 'Place of Birth'n / freq=number barwidth=.9 stat=percent ;

[JayTay84]

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

72

73 proc product_status;

74 run;

For Base SAS Software ...

Custom version information: 9.4_M6

Image version information: 9.04.01M6P110718

For SAS/STAT ...

Custom version information: 15.1

For SAS/ETS ...

Custom version information: 15.1

For SAS/IML ...

Custom version information: 15.1

For High Performance Suite ...

Custom version information: 2.2_M7

For SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files ...

Custom version information: 9.4_M6

NOTE: PROCEDURE PRODUCT_STATUS used (Total process time):

real time 0.03 seconds

cpu time 0.01 seconds

75

76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

88

 This is what I got when I typed in your suggestion, I'm using SAS University Edition. I am trying to create a 'simple graph' with data I have. 

This is what I ran to receive the error (I Imagine this is leading cause in error): 

proc sgplot data=/folder/myfolders
run; 

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:
there's something else wrong with your code.

Try this:
proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
vbar sex / response=height stat=mean;
run;

And you should get a vertical bar chart. Typically, you need the full name of a SAS dataset after data= in the PROC step.

You have only partial code. I would expect you to get an error on
proc sgplot data=/folders/myfolders;
run;

for 2 reasons:
1) you are only pointing to a folder, not to a dataset in the folder
2) you do not have an action or plot statement, like vbar, hbar, scatter or series, etc.

I would expect my code to work for you in SAS University Edition.

Cynthia