p106.p01 practice. Stuck!

[mintbit]

I cant get this exercise to work because the datafile /home/u47329240/EPG194/data/storm_detail.sas7bdat does not include any rows. Have I messed up the file or is it also missing rows in your program?

[ballardw]

I would suggest following the original instructions to make the data sets if you had to do that to set up your training.

It is quite easy to write code to create empty data sets.

Data junk;

   set junk;

  if 1=2;

run;

will overwrite the original Junk data set and because 1 is not equal to 2 no records will get written to the new version. If you have written any practice code that uses the same data set name for input and output you may have done something similar. Especially for new users it is very poor practice to use the same set for input and output.

[mintbit]

Thank you for the reply