The Help button does not work.

Don't worry. The Help frames (i.e., windows) have not been written for every frame. Sorry, can't do everything at once.

 

The SASPairs frame seems to be missing text, buttons or other items.

Two possibilities here:

1. By far the most likely reason: The frame is too small to contain the formatted text, button, menu, or other items. Resize the frame (how do I do this?).
2. You may have changed the type of font and its size so that the text is too big to fit into its field. Change to a smaller font (how do I do this?).

 

(1) I cannot page down to see the end of a list.
(2) I cannot see all the parameters in the interactive window.
(3) I cannot change parameter values because only the first few parameters appear in the list.

This is a gnarly problem with the vertical scroll bar that should appear immediately to the right of the parameter list. Sometimes if you page down (or down and then up a bit), the internal scroll bars disappears. Hence, you cannot scroll down to see the parameters below the list's dimension.

Usually, going to the very top of the window makes the vertical scroll bar reappear.

Also, click on any item in the last visible line and then press the down arrow on the keyboard. That seems to make the scroll bar appear.

Am working with the SAS Institute to see if there is a quick fix to this problem.

 

I get the following error message in the SAS Log "QUANEW minimization took more than 200 iterations".

This occurs when the initial vector of free parameter estimates is in a mathematically feasible space but quickly moves into a nonfeasible space (e.g., a predicted covariance matrix is not positive definite). The only solution is to manually change start values. Make certain that the diagonals of the predicted phenotypic covariance matrix are large while the off-diagonals are small.

 

Problems with TYPE=CORR data set .

Sorry here, but some sections of code do not work if you created a SASPairs project from a TYPE=CORR data set. Known problems are:

• Phenotypic causality models do not work because that section of code needs to be written.

 

Send email to gregory.carey@colorado.edu. Please include the following in your email:

 

• A brief description of the problem.
• If possible, a copy of the SAS Log.
• If possible, a copy of the SAS Output.
• If possible, a screen shot of the window from which the problem arose. (On Windows systems, click on the SAS window and then press Alt - Prnt Scrn. This will place a copy of the window in the clipboard. In MS Word, you can use Edit --> Paste Special to place this image into an MS Word document. Then send the Word document as an attachment.)