Date:         Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:26:30 -0500
Reply-To:     Kevin Myers <KevinMyers@austin.rr.com>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Kevin Myers <WHMyers@CABLEONE.NET>
Subject:      Re: PROC SUMMARY Failure
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@attglobal.net>
To: "Kevin Myers" <KevinMyers@austin.rr.com>; <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: PROC SUMMARY Failure


> Maybe it's b/c you're outputting your input dataset?
>

I've done that often, and it's never caused a problem previously...  And I
still have the same problem even without writing back to the input data set.
But thanks anyway for the idea.


>
> At 03:43 PM 07/08/2003 -0500, Kevin Myers wrote:
>
> >Howdy Folks,
> >
> >As some of you may recall, using PROC SUMMARY in the following way used
to
> >work up through early V8.2 at least.  Note that there is no VAR
statement,
> >and the input data set has no numeric variables.  I have used this method
> >many times over the years in order to obtain a simple list of all
> >combinations of class variable values:
> >
> >proc summary data=Country missing nway order=freq;
> >    class IHSCountryCode DSCountryId CountryName CountryAbbr;
> >    output out=Country;
> >    run;
> >
> >However, I now receive the following error message (SAS 8.2 with all?
> >hotfixes under Win 2K):
> >
> >ERROR: Neither the PRINT option nor a valid output statement has been
given.
> >
> >This or some similar message used to be produced under equivalent
> >circumstances when using PROC MEANS, but NOT when using PROC SUMMARY
> >(despite what the docs might lead you to believe to the contrary).  Has
> >someone changed this PROC SUMMARY behavior on purpose???  If so, this is
> >going to break LOTS of existing programs!!!
> >
> >If anyone can see some stupid mistake that I'm making, or has any
> >information regarding this apparant change in behavior, I'd really
> >appreciate it.  Thanks!
> >
> >s/KAM
>
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