# No groups were found

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/no-groups-were-found/1189>\
**Category:** SlicerSALT\
**Created:** [October 6, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/no-groups-were-found/1189 "2017-10-06T11:31:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c57346/32.png) [@Olof](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Olof)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/no-groups-were-found/1189/1 "2017-10-06T11:31:02Z")

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Dear Bea,  
Running the shape\_analysis mancova I get the following error:

No groups were found in file /home/olof/Desktop/TotalSubiculum\_R/Step3\_ParaToSPHARMMesh/02c57db6-7b88-47b9-9ac2-0206a78bb6f1\_Subic\_R.meta

However a group number is present for this subject. As I have 900 subjects I tried to remove this subject but then this error is found in a new subject.

Is this error due to something else?

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**Author:** ![bpaniagua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/bpaniagua/32/20_2.png) [@bpaniagua](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/bpaniagua)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/no-groups-were-found/1189/2 "2017-10-06T12:26:29Z")

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Hi Olof,

How does the input csv that you use for Shape Analysis Mancova look like? I would recommend using a plain text viewer to see if you can detect wrong end of line characters or other file problems.

Thank you,  
Bea