SAS QUESTIONS

Null Columns only based on a variable value - SAS Dataset

should help you out There are 2 parts to the question I think. First is to subset records where Reported = "N". Then among those records, report columns that have all missing values. If this is correct then you could do something as follows (I am ass

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Date : January 10 2021, 02:06 PM , By : pcoramc

Setting all array values to a single value

I wish did fix the issue. You have 100*NOBS assignments to do. Don't see how using a DO loop over an ARRAY is any more inefficient than any other way. But there is no need to do the calculation when you know it will not be needed.

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Date : January 10 2021, 02:06 PM , By : sadboy

Formatting in SAS to Create Buckets

seems to work fine I use the following code to bucket my continuous variable in SAS, but it does not work: , You are just not setting the dataset - rather creating a new one.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : barefootChild

Reading large MSSQL tables from SAS efficiently

Any of those help BULKLOAD=yes is for uploading data from SAS. Reading data into SAS should not require special flags.47 GB in two hours seems slow, but I'm not sure if you'll find someone who's willing to help you troubleshoot it in an online forum.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : Francesco

Transposing a complex data set in SAS

should help you out Complex transformations usually involve more than one TRANSPOSE or DATA steps with arrays. Sometimes an overly complex transformation is a hint that what is really needed is a reporting procedure such as tabulate or report instead

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : sam

Can input function take a macro variable as character argument?

Does that help The macro processor just replaces the macro reference with the resolved text and then the generated text is interpreted as text. So when you tried.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : omaidog

How to read data from data file using infile statement?

hope this fix your issue There are 3 things you need to do: Make sure that the folder you put the dataset in is accessible to the SAS University Edition VM. Did you follow the setup guide in full? Usually that directs you to set up a folder that beco

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : oiyto

Weight in Proc TABULATE Has No Effect

like below fixes the issue From my reading of the docs, in PROC TABULATE the WEIGHT statement specifies weights for analysis variables, i.e. variables listed on a VAR statement.You don't have any analysis variables, you only have class variables.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : KaoFloppy

Find the prime DATE

will help you So there was just a discussion about how to generate prime numbers using Sieve of Eratosthenes method. So we can first run that and then loop over the dates and convert them into the series of numbers and check if they are primes.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : Justin Bowers

SAS How to extract a single string before a specific string?

I wish this helpful for you I'm trying to extract the number n before a string: , So, it's time for regular expression.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : brij

How Do I Write A Do-Loop That Creates A Graph For Each Unique Person?

help you fix your problem In SAS, the doing something for each concept is typically serviced via the BY statement. The Proc will perform the operations you expect and automatically process the data group-wise according to the distinct values of the b

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : geo

SAS data set "nonexistent"?

this will help Member names in SAS must be valid SAS names. So you couldn't name your dataset 1979data.sas7bdat. You can relax some of the restrictions by setting the option VALIDMEMNAME to EXTEND and using name literals in your SAS code. But also no

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : ranja

Insert into function with SAS/SQL

it helps some times Date literals (constants) are quoted strings with the letter d immediately after the close quote. The string needs to be in a format that is valid for the DATE informat.

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Date : January 02 2021, 06:48 AM , By : goffi

Prevent SAS to automatically remove trailing blank in string

I hope this helps . I didn't quite understand what you are trying to do with ksubstr, but if you want to add padding to get the total length to 20 characters, you may have to write some extra logic:

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Date : January 01 2021, 06:10 PM , By : John R

Merging as of a date

I think the issue was by ths following , I am trying to merge two tables. table A has an id column, a date column, and an amount value for every date in a period , This will work for the question you have asked literally:

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Date : December 28 2020, 06:11 AM , By : shenol

compute variable after datalines

should help you out Datalines appears at the end of the data step. Your computation statements should be placed before datalines, after the input

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Date : December 27 2020, 02:58 PM , By : Ivan Kitanovski

Generate multiple lags through loops in SAS?

seems to work fine You would have to maintain your own array of mv values and assign the lag values from that. The array would be bubbled for each row processed and reset at the start of an fyear group.Example:

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Date : December 26 2020, 03:01 AM , By : Vodkat

Creating Columns From Stacked Data

I wish this helpful for you I cannot think of a way to generate this report using just one PROC. You will need to do some post processing of PROC MEANS or PROC SUMMARY results to get to this:

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Date : December 25 2020, 04:01 PM , By : Doc Immortal

PROC LOESS with option MAXPOINTS = NONE

should help you out I doesn't mean that it used only 9 points in estimating. In essence what it indicates is the optimal number of points required to come up with the fit. It is likely that your smoothing factor is too high or your data really is tru

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Date : December 25 2020, 12:31 PM , By : Jonathan

SAS macro variable containing two macro variables is not resolved

With these it helps Macro triggers are not resolved inside of single quotes. One easy way is to use double quote characters instead, remember to double any embedded double quote characters.Note there is no need to use CATS() in macro code. Or add %ST

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Date : December 25 2020, 09:33 AM , By : user118656

Retain and Keep Variables Macro

Any of those help Why a macro? They way you use a macro "function" hardly reduces the code and makes it harder to read. It is easyer to use a macro variable.

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Date : December 25 2020, 03:01 AM , By : Don Changer

Macro to Include Based on Variable Record Names

Hope this helps I think a brief study of SAS datastep and macro may help you since you have it a bit confused. Remember, anything that goes inside a macro gets resolved during compile time and output is actually code that gets executed during runtime

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Date : December 24 2020, 03:01 AM , By : Jµ.

How to generate new import code following a structure change in an upstream flat file without headers?

With these it helps Based on your description, I presume you either know or will find out the informats for the new columns also. If that is the case, why don't you auto generate the code to read the file?Since you have the header information, assumi

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Date : December 23 2020, 07:30 PM , By : snk

Derive unique libref and/or fileref in SAS

will be helpful for those in need The FILENAME() function already provides a method for this. When you call it with a missing value for the fileref it generates one using format LNnnnnn.

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Date : December 23 2020, 04:01 PM , By : Pieter Taelman

Make macro variables name as a value

hop of those help? An error has occured cause of incorrect use of quoting macro variable. This article says:

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Date : December 22 2020, 03:30 PM , By : enginecrew

Sharing variables when parallel processing

it helps some times As you correctly notice, the different SAS programs do not share variables automatically, but you can pass them explicitly:

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Date : December 21 2020, 03:04 PM , By : user186831

Creating specific PROC JSON hierarchy

it helps some times Export defaults to outputting a dataset as an array of objects of name:value pairs. With NOKEYS the construct is an array of arrays, with the inner array being an array of values.In order to get a single array of values for a colu

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Date : December 20 2020, 04:36 AM , By : s8k

Is there any better ways to compare cases between different row in SAS?

I wish did fix the issue. During some data cleaning process, there is a need to compare the data between different rows. For example, if the rows have the same countryID and subjectID then keep the largest temperature: , I think you complicate task.

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Date : December 05 2020, 12:06 PM , By : n1ckless_id

Accumulator variables and its use

wish help you to fix your issue you have multiple things in your code, which you need to change. missing numeric value is represented as . character data set is referenced using set statement not infile accumulator variable you are talking about is s

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Date : December 01 2020, 04:55 PM , By : John Tate

what is the length of this variable?

To fix this issue To change the length,we must use the LENGTH statement as the very first statement in the DATA STEP ,but the position will be changed at the same time. In your code the LENGTH statement has no effect on the length of JOBCODE variable

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Date : November 28 2020, 09:01 AM , By : Chris Lomax

SAS pseudo codes execution: if VAR(t+1)>VAR(t) then output VAR(t)

I hope this helps . To compare a record with the subsequent record, one way is to merge the table on to itself, with the second version starting from record number 2. Therefore record 1 in table1 will join with record 2 in table2 etc. You also need t

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Date : November 27 2020, 09:01 AM , By : Mena

dynamically exclude column names in proc sql macro

may help you . Change the macro parameter name to be something better informing, for example

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Date : November 27 2020, 04:01 AM , By : Josh Tegart

Why doesn't SAS/ACCESS work ?

hope this fix your issue Because you do not have a license for SAS/ACCESS to Teradata. You do have ACCESS for ODBC. Create an ODBC connection to Teradata and use that connection in SAS.

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Date : November 24 2020, 09:00 AM , By : JoeKaras

Using variables in SAS User defined function

like below fixes the issue The macro processor evaluates before the results are passed onto base SAS for processing. Since your program uses this macro logic.

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Date : November 22 2020, 02:59 PM , By : Sigfrieg

rewrite these code using macro variable

I hope this helps you . You should read the documentation on how symput() works in relation to the macro compiler and the data step compiler. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/mcrolref/68140/HTML/default/viewer.htmp09y28i2d1kn8qn1p1icxchz37

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Date : November 22 2020, 10:54 AM , By : user126922

How do I work with a SAS file that was created in a different format (Linux/Windows) if I don't have access to machine t

Does that help I have numerous SAS datasets on my Windows 7 / SAS 9.4 machine: , You can use the colon operator or dash to shortcut your process:

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Date : November 22 2020, 10:40 AM , By : Paul

Which one of the following represents the new variable that are created?

hop of those help? The variables in answer A represent the variables read from the existing dataset work.stuff. As such you would probably not consider them 'new'.The variables in answer C are created by the definition of the array DIFF_SALES. We kno

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Date : November 21 2020, 09:01 AM , By : lietkynes

SAS program, How to do the calculation based on two tables without IML

will be helpful for those in need Maybe I'm missing something but a cross join should also work fine with the GEODIST function and then a transpose to make it wide. It doesn't matter how many points are in each file, though I suppose if it got big en

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Date : November 20 2020, 03:01 PM , By : user183289

How to use lag function to calculate next observation in SAS

This might help you The problem with using lag is when you use lag1(Cal) you're not getting the last value of Cal that was written to the output dataset, you're getting the last value that was passed to the lag1 function. It would probably be easier

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Date : November 19 2020, 12:41 AM , By : PeteFilicetti

"Automatically" calculate linear combination of parameter estimates with PROC GLM

should help you out You are looking for PROC SCORE. This takes output regression or factor estimates and scores a new data set. See here for an example. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/66859/HTML/default/viewer.htmstatug_score_exam

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Date : November 17 2020, 12:00 PM , By : yogan

how many observations will the data set contain?

With these it helps The following is the code:

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Date : November 14 2020, 09:01 AM , By : Goeran

Counting number of different fields in SAS

will help you Array processing is one (of several) ways to obtain your summary counts.

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Date : November 11 2020, 03:01 PM , By : user152423

Build macro Variables on another macro var

this one helps. You can use %SYSFUNC() to call functions in macro code. You can use the optional format specification to control how the results is converted to the text that is stored in the macro variable.So if you start with macro variable in DATE

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Date : November 09 2020, 08:00 AM , By : JSebok

How do I convert from date to character string in a sas macro

help you fix your problem A put command in SAS always returns a character string. The distinction between %sysfunc(putc()) and %sysfunc(putn()) is what type of format the second argument of the function is - putc understands character formats and put

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Date : November 06 2020, 03:01 PM , By : Timbo

Data incorrectly read in as missing when using DSD option in infile statement (SAS)

it fixes the issue dsd does not say "use a delimiter". It tells SAS how to use that delimiter (mostly, saying anything in quotes is treated as one field, and modifying how consecutive delimiters are treated). dlm=',' is necessary to read this in corr

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Date : November 03 2020, 03:01 PM , By : dnyaneshwar

In SAS how to transpose a table producing a dummy variable for each unique value in a column

may help you . Seems like you need the help of PROC TRANSREG to generate a design matrix that is reduced.

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Date : November 03 2020, 04:01 AM , By : Per

How to reference control characters (eg CRLF) in SAS Macro Variable

With these it helps The function is to blame, once the strings mactest or lf are fed into find the 0 carriage return or line feed or similar are just converted to spaces \x20 which is why you are seeing these results. Best solution I can think of is

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Date : November 01 2020, 04:01 AM , By : Matthew Steed

How many observations in the output dataset?

To fix the issue you can do Why would you expect the output dataset to have only 3 observations. There is an implied OUTPUT statement at the bottom of the DATA step. If you want to output only those records where STYLE IN ("CONDO","RANCH") you could

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Date : October 31 2020, 01:52 PM , By : Star Gryphon

Using macro variables in SAS statements copied from %include

To fix the issue you can do Yes. If you set the macro variables prior to the %include statements, the macros called using %include will first look locally to resolve the macro variables and then look globally, which is where they will reside. There a

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Date : October 31 2020, 01:47 PM , By : Naveen

SAS Univariate put all tests into 1 table

will help you You were close. Use ods output GoodnessOfFit; instead. Take a look at this example using sashelp.cars. This produces a single table with all goodness of fit estimates.

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Date : October 31 2020, 05:01 AM , By : kuba53280

which value would SAS assign to the variable?

Any of those help Using of Rev: in the mean() function says that it should take the mean of all variables that start with "Rev", so since the values of the variables that start with "Rev" are 1.2, 1.6, and 2.0, the value of total will be 1.6.

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Date : October 30 2020, 10:01 AM , By : enginecrew

Importing data to SAS from text file with multiple delimiters and line breaks in character variables

I hope this helps . SAS can read delimited files that have embedded line breaks as long as the embedded line breaks use different character than the normal end of line. So if your real observations end with CRLF (normal for a Windows text file) and t

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Date : October 30 2020, 05:01 AM , By : Gilmar Souza Jr.

SAS ODS Documentation Syntax Error

I hope this helps . It seem that path option is valid in ods html, but is not valid in ods pdf, but it doesn't matter because you can specify absolute path in file option.

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Date : October 27 2020, 04:13 PM , By : user158193

SAS: Creating classes by enumeration

around this issue You will be using two primary tools: The mod function and a sum statement. The sum statement looks like incorrect syntax, but it's a special case of retain._N_ is a special variable that acts as your observation counter. Every time

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Date : October 23 2020, 03:08 PM , By : Grace Jones

Add a number of days to SAS datetime format

seems to work fine Here a code sample that will print your desired result. Like the other answer states, DTDAY will tell SAS to add days when the base value is a datetime instead of a date.

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Date : October 23 2020, 01:08 AM , By : user158193

tranwrd doesn't replace correctly and truncate target string

wish of those help There's no need to do all the transformations in your code. You can use the relevant language date informat to read the data directly. In your case it is in Spanish, so the espdfde9. informat will read the source data as a date (us

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Date : October 22 2020, 03:08 PM , By : Brian

SAS can't read following space delimited file

Does that help Your file does not conform to the rules for LIST input with imbedded blanks. You can still read it without changing the file but you have to find the column where the name field ends.

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Date : October 14 2020, 09:39 AM , By : todor

How to remove special ASCII characters?

fixed the issue. Will look into that further You can use kpropdata function. From doc:

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Date : October 09 2020, 02:00 AM , By : omaidog

Need same output in sas

Hope that helps So I have the following data: , Try this:

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Date : October 08 2020, 06:00 PM , By : 66.

$Remove invalid string entries (\n) from numeric column variables$

Remove invalid string entries (\n) from numeric column variables

it helps some times The import process that finds data that is non-numeric will cause that column to be _character_, so some of your A1-A54 are character.What happens if you code this ?

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Date : October 08 2020, 01:00 PM , By : glisignoli