I am trying to relate Medicare spending to various census variables nationwide. I am using zip code level data, so the number of spatial units is over 20,000. The error message is not informative enough to tell me if it's a memory issue or a matrix algebra issue or something else. It does work for a 10% subset of the data, which makes me lean toward a memory issue, but in my experience if it's a memory issue SAS returns a more explicit error message.   Here is the log:   model var2 = var1 / type=SAR; spatialID zip; quit;   ERROR: This model cannot be fit. NOTE: PROCEDURE SPATIALREG used (Total process time): real time 1:20.53 user cpu time 1:20.47 ... View more

I am trying to read in some data as a date. Here are four honest tries that fail in various ways. *error - "expecting a name"; data clinical; input ID $ 1-2 visit_date MMDDYY10. 4-13 group $ 15 ; datalines; 01 03/12/1998 D 02 04/15/2008 P 03 11/30/2009 J ; run; *error - "expecting a name"; data clinical; input ID $ 1-2 visit_date 4-13 MMDDYY10. group $ 15 ; datalines; 01 03/12/1998 D 02 04/15/2008 P 03 11/30/2009 J ; run; *this works but the date is not a date; data clinical; input ID $ 1-2 visit_date $ 4-13 group $ 15 ; datalines; 01 03/12/1998 D 02 04/15/2008 P 03 11/30/2009 J ; run; *error - invalid data; data clinical; informat visit_date MMDDYY10.; input ID $ 1-2 visit_date 4-13 group $ 15 ; datalines; 01 03/12/1998 D 02 04/15/2008 P 03 11/30/2009 J ; run; ... View more

I am teaching remotely on short notice, and using SAS Studio for the first time. I have dozens of sample files and sample programs I would like to be able to share with my students - is there a way to do this? (Downloading them all, then emailing them all, then having them upload them all is something I would rather avoid). ... View more