topic Re: KFIND in SAS Programming

KFIND

Kamsher — Wed, 09 May 2018 13:55:55 GMT

Does SAS 9.4 M3 support KFIND function?

RW9 — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:03:43 GMT

From the manual:

Kamsher — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:08:03 GMT

Thanks. We are using SAS 9.4 M3 and the dbcs sasexec to execute our program. But we see that it does not recognize KFIND and gives the below error:

ERROR 68-185: The function KFIND is unknown, or cannot be accessed

RW9 — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:13:53 GMT

Afraid I don't know then, it should be part of 9.4. Perhaps contact your SAS support guys.

Ksharp — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:17:31 GMT

kindex() ?

Kamsher — Wed, 09 May 2018 15:15:16 GMT

ok, so with 9.4 M5 (Sasexe dbcs) I am able to use KFIND. But it now gives me transcoding errors. How do I workaround this?

Kamsher — Wed, 09 May 2018 15:15:33 GMT

ok, so with 9.4 M5 (Sasexe dbcs) I am able to use KFIND. But it now gives me transcoding errors. How do I workaround this?

ballardw — Wed, 09 May 2018 15:25:58 GMT

What is KFIND supposed to do?

The function LARGEST returns the "k" largest nonmissing value of a list of values:

a = largest(3, 1, 4, 5, 27, 8, 6); the first value is the 'k' and would return a=6. the values may be constants or variables

SMALLEST works similarly for the smallest values,

ORDINAL returns the th kth smalles to missing or nonmissing

Ksharp — Thu, 10 May 2018 12:35:56 GMT

That is due to your sas session encoding is different from the sas dataset encoding.

Change your sas encoding into the same as sas dataset .