topic create a numeric and a character variables in an if statement in New SAS User

create a numeric and a character variables in an if statement

RebeccaJW — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 01:03:58 GMT

I would like to create two variables , one numeric and one character, according to ages. For example , for age<=8, I would like to assign 10 to grade and median to growth.

However, I only know how to create one variable for one if statement, which is shown below. I want to ask if there is more efficient way to do this.

data age;
	set age;
	grade = .;
	growth = .;
	if (age<=8) then grade=10;
       if (age<=8) then growth="median";
run;

Re: create a numeric and a character variables in an if statement

novinosrin — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 01:07:02 GMT

 

data age;
	set age;
if (age<=8) then do;
         grade=10;
        growth="median";
       END;
run;

Re: create a numeric and a character variables in an if statement

RebeccaJW — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 01:10:12 GMT

It works! Thank you @novinosrin !