Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this type of question
Recently I've been getting an error when trying to upload data sets. It started when I tried uploading an extremely large set e.g. 150k by 200 of rows and columns.
The first thing I did(after the error) was to check the file size and it was roughly 34mb then I realized SAS studio has a 10mb upload capacity if I recall. It was odd that it uploaded but would cause an error when trying to run it.
So the next thing I did was use a much smaller sample size like 100 x 100 and the file was ~5kb. However after uploading the file then hitting run I get the same error:
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Could it be that you have invalid column names?
Try
options validvarname=any;
Sadly that didn't change anything perhaps it's the data type?
Sorry I'm not familiar with the forum rules but this where I was gathering my data from
https://datamarket.com/data/set/22wh/wolfer-sunspot-numbers-1770-to-1869#!ds=22wh&display=line
under export, they have CSV( , ) and CSV( ; ) they both output different excel file and the former doesn't give me an error when running the import.
The files created are not Excel files.They are flat text files.
A comma separator is the usual standard. Why not simply use it if it generates no errors?
It's never that easy sadly,
The data I referenced via the link was additional data; I wanted to see if I could upload and run it successfully while I tried to figure out what to do with my large dataset problem.
In short, my professors wanted datasets that pertained to local areas so unfortunately the I'm a few centuries off.
Fortunately, as I'm typing this I realized my large dataset could just be broken down to its individual years then merged using SAS
So one facepalm for me /)_- and a thank you to you for, well just answering these messages haha
Cheers!
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