Appendix C: Known Issues in Using CAS Tables with SAS/STAT Procedures

Options Incompatible with Input CAS Tables

Table 10 summarizes known procedure options or specifications that are incompatible with input CAS tables. In these situations, you must instead input SAS data sets that have the intended order of observations.

Table 10: Procedure Options Incompatible with Input CAS Tables

Procedures Options or Specifications
Any applicable procedures ORDER=DATA, ORDER=FREQDATA, and RORDER=DATA options in the PROC statement or other statements
ANOVA,
GLM
ABSORB option
DISTANCE DSORDER option for ordinal variables in the VAR statement
GLIMMIX Using the internal variable _N_ in programming statements;
RESIDUAL option and _RESIDUAL_ keyword in the RANDOM statement
GLIMMIX,
MIXED
Continuous effect specifications for the SUBJECT= and GROUP= options in the RANDOM statement
HPMIXED REPEATED statement specifications
MIXED Continuous effect specifications for the SUBJECT= and GROUP= options in the REPEATED statement; an empty effect specification in the REPEATED statement
QUANTREG OBS= option in the CONDDIST statement


For all options, except the OBS= option in the QUANTREG procedure, the corresponding procedure exits with an error message. The OBS= option is ignored and a warning message is issued.

Last updated: December 09, 2022