topic Re: Using retain function without getting rid of original observations in SAS Programming

Using retain function without getting rid of original observations

cdubs — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:00:25 GMT

HI all,

I currently have a dataset that has

data have; 
input enrolid year enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt; /* Don't know how to format the dates -- any advice?? */

datalines;
1234 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010 
1234 2011 01-JAN-2011 7-SEP-2011
5678 2010 01-JAN-2010 8-AUG-2010
4829 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010
4829 2011 01-JAN-2011 31-DEC-2011
4829 2012 01-JAN-2012 31-DEC-2012
4829 2013 01-JAN-2013 31-DEC-2013
;

And I want to get this:

data want; 
input enrolid year enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt overall_start overall_end overall_days;
datalines;
1234 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010 01-JAN-2010 7-SEP-2011 614
1234 2011 01-JAN-2011 7-SEP-2011 01-JAN-2010 7-SEP-2011 614
5678 2010 01-JAN-2010 8-AUG-2010 01-JAN-2010 8-AUG-2010 219
4829 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2013 1095
4829 2011 01-JAN-2011 31-DEC-2011 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2013 1095 
4829 2012 01-JAN-2012 31-DEC-2012 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2013 1095
4829 2013 01-JAN-2013 31-DEC-2013 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2013 1095
;

But with the current code I'm running I'm getting something funky ... that looks almost like the above but I am not able to retain all of the original observations corresponding to each unique enrolid - enroll_start_dt - enroll_end_dt combination...

My current code is as follows:

data want;
			set have;
			by enrolid enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt;
			retain enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt overall_start overall_end overall_days;
			format overall_start overall_end date11.;
			if first.enrolid and first.enroll_start_dt and first.enroll_end_dt then do;
				overall_start=enroll_start_dt;
				overall_end=enroll_end_dt;
				overall_days=overall_end-overall_start;
			end;
			
				else if enroll_start_dt>overall_end+1 then do;
				output;
				overall_start=enroll_start_dt;
				overall_end=enroll_end_dt;
				overall_days=overall_end-overall_start;
			end;

else if enroll_start_dt<=overall_end+1 then do;
 overall_start=min(overall_start,enroll_start_dt);
 overall_end = max(overall_end, enroll_end_dt);
 overall_days=overall_end-overall_start;
 end;
			if last.enrolid then output;
		run;

Re: Using retain function without getting rid of original observations

novinosrin — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:15:27 GMT

data have;
input enrolid year (enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt) (:date9.);
format enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt date9.;
datalines;
1234 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010
1234 2011 01-JAN-2011 7-SEP-2011
5678 2010 01-JAN-2010 8-AUG-2010
4829 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010
4829 2011 01-JAN-2011 31-DEC-2011
4829 2012 01-JAN-2012 31-DEC-2012
4829 2013 01-JAN-2013 31-DEC-2013
;

data want;
do until(last.enrolid);
set have;
by enrolid notsorted;
if first.enrolid then overall_start =enroll_start_dt;
if last.enrolid then do;
overall_end =enroll_end_dt;
overall_days=intck('days', overall_start,overall_end);
end;
end;
do until(last.enrolid);
set have;
by enrolid notsorted;
output;
end;
format overall_start overall_end date9.;
run;

Re: Using retain function without getting rid of original observations

Patrick — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:40:21 GMT

@cdubs

Here a solution approach using SAS SQL flavor:

data have;
  input enrolid year (enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt) (:date11.); 
  format enroll_start_dt enroll_end_dt date11.;
  datalines;
1234 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010 
1234 2011 01-JAN-2011 7-SEP-2011
5678 2010 01-JAN-2010 8-AUG-2010
4829 2010 01-JAN-2010 31-DEC-2010
4829 2011 01-JAN-2011 31-DEC-2011
4829 2012 01-JAN-2012 31-DEC-2012
4829 2013 01-JAN-2013 31-DEC-2013
;
run;

proc sql;
  create table want as
    select 
      *
      ,min(enroll_start_dt) as overall_start format=date11.
      ,max(enroll_end_dt)   as overall_end   format=date11.
      ,(calculated overall_end - calculated overall_start) as overall_days
    from 
      have
    group by enrolid
  ;
run;