Problem Note 14451: PROC BOXPLOT abends with a single group having a date format
If your group variable has only one numeric value and that variable has
a SAS date format associated with it, PROC BOXPLOT will abend with:
ERROR: Floating Point Zero Divide.
ERROR: Termination due to Floating Point Exception
To circumvent this problem, use a character group variable instead. The
PUT function can be used in a DATA step to create a character version of
the numeric group variable with the desired format.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| AIX | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> BOXPLOT
Analytics ==> Descriptive Statistics
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| Date Modified: | 2005-02-04 08:16:32 |
| Date Created: | 2005-01-31 15:29:28 |
