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How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

bretthouston — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:40:30 GMT

Hello,

I apologize for the very basic questions, but I've tried a few variations of proc transpose and I haven't been able to figure this one out.

Here is a sample of what my data set looks like:

PatientID	Hospital	AdmissionDate	Transfusion1Dtm	Transfusion1Product	Transfusion1Lot#	Transfusion2Dtm	Transfusion2Product	Transfusion2Lot#	Transfusion3Dtm	Transfusion3Product	Transfusion3Lot#
1	HSC	20OCT2018	21OCT2018:18:20:00	RBC	C054016798	21OCT2018:22:00	RBC	C054016799	22OCT2018:14:25:00	HAS	435710004
2	HSC	18OCT2018	18OCT2018:16:55:00	Platelet	C054015830
3	SBGH	23OCT2018	26OCT2018:20:00:00	RBC	C054014779	27OCT2018:23:43:00	RBC	C054014786

This is what I would like it to look like:

PatientID	Hospital	AdmissionDate	TransfusionDtm	TransfusionProduct	TransfusionLot#
1	HSC	20OCT2018	21OCT2018:18:20:00	RBC	C054016798
1	HSC	20OCT2018	21OCT2018:22:00:00	RBC	C054016799
1	HSC	20OCT2018	22OCT2018:14:25:00	HAS	435710004
2	HSC	18OCT2018	18OCT2018:16:55:00	Platelet	C054015830
3	SBGH	23OCT2018	26OCT2018:20:00:00	RBC	C054014779
3	SBGH	23OCT2018	27OCT2018:23:43:00	RBC	C054014786

Essentially, I would like the columns TransfusionDtm, TransfusionProduct and TransfusionLot# to collapse length wise.

Any guidance here would be very much appreciated. Thanks!!

Brett

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

ballardw — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:56:29 GMT

One way:

data want; 
   set have;
   array tdt    Transfusion1Dtm Transfusion2Dtm Transfusion3Dtm;
   array tpr    Transfusion1Product Transfusion2Product Transfusion3Product;
   array tlt    Transfusion1Lot Transfusion2Lot Transfusion3Lot;
   do i= 1 to dim(tdt);
      if not missing(tdt[i]) then do;
         transfusedt      = tdt[i];
         transfuseproduct = tpr[i];
         tranfuselot      = tlt[i];
         output;
     end;
   end;
   keep patientid hospital admissiondate 
        transfusedt  transfuseproduct tranfuselot ;
run;

The arrays are basically to simplify writing references to similar values.

With experience in SAS you will learn that naming similar variables with the number at the end such as instead of Transfusion1Dt use TransfusionDtm1 is nicer for coding. You can reference lists of similar variables with: TransfusionDtm1 - TransfusionDtm12 (if you had 12 measurements or such) or even as TransfusionDtm: the : at the end that way references all variables that start with the same characters.

May not seem like a big deal but wait until you start getting 50 similar variables. Those lists make things much nicer than having to type out all 50 names.

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

Reeza — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:12:29 GMT

Transposing data tutorials:

Wide to Long:
https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/modules/reshaping-data-wide-to-long-using-a-data-step/

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

Reeza — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:12:31 GMT

Transposing data tutorials:

Wide to Long:
https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/modules/reshaping-data-wide-to-long-using-a-data-step/

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

art297 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:17:13 GMT

You've already marked this question as answered, but I had a couple of questions that I'd need answered before proposing what I think will be an easier solution.

1. Do you really have 3 variables named Transfusion1Lot#, Transfusion2Lot# and Transfusion3Lot# or are they called something else?

2. Your stated output file doesn't retain the 1s, 2s or 3s that were in the wide file. Do you need to keep them or are they irrelevant?

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

bretthouston — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:22:19 GMT

Hi Art,

Thanks for your interest in this question - I'd love to hear what you think. The column name (in the dataset as it is) is transfusion_1_lot_num_cr, and there are actually 15 different transfusions captured (ie this extends from 1 to transfusion_15_lot_num_cr). These were unfortunately named by someone else.

You're correct that I don't need the # specified in the final column, I just want to make sure that the transfusion date/time, product and lot# move together in the table (if that makes sense).

Thanks,

Brett

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

art297 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:32:48 GMT

Are the other two sets of variables named the same way. i.e. are they:

Transfusion1Dtm and Transfusion1Product

Transfusion_1_Dtm and Transfusion_1_Product etc.

or something else?

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

bretthouston — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:42:15 GMT

Hi Art,

The other variables are transfusion_1_time_cr (in dtm format) and transfusion_1_product_cr.

Thx,

Brett

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

art297 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:28:43 GMT

Are the variable names all lower case? In your original example, some characters in the variable names were upper case.

i.e., unless you indicate otherwise, my proposed solution will expect that the variables (case sensitive) will be in the form:

  input PatientID Hospital AdmissionDate
    transfusion_1_time_cr transfusion_1_product_cr transfusion_1_lot_num_cr
    transfusion_2_time_cr transfusion_2_product_cr transfusion_2_lot_num_cr
    transfusion_3_time_cr transfusion_3_product_cr transfusion_3_lot_num_cr;

etc, thru
    transfusion_15_time_cr transfusion_15_product_cr transfusion_15_lot_num_cr;

Also, what is the wide dataset's actual filename?

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

bretthouston — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:31:54 GMT

The variables are lower case! And the file name is 'CRSummary' (in work library).

Thanks,

Brett

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

art297 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:06:05 GMT

In that case, I think that running the following will achieve what you want:

filename ut url 'http://tiny.cc/untranspose_macro';
%include ut ;
%untranspose(data=CRSummary, out=want, by=PatientID Hospital AdmissionDate,
  prefix=transfusion_, suffix=_cr, id=num,
  var=_time _product _lot_num, var_first=no)

data want;
  set want (drop=num rename=(_time=time _product=product _lot_num=lot_num));
run;

It uses a SAS macro that a group of us wrote and presented at last year's SAS Global Forum. If you want to download the macro and/or read about it, you can get the paper, code, powerpoint and tip sheet at: https://github.com/art297/untranspose

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: How to convert table from wide to long with multiple columns

bretthouston — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:53:30 GMT

Thank-you for your help! 🙂