topic Re: vertical concatenation based on grouping variables in SAS Programming

vertical concatenation based on grouping variables

kyath_sas — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:22:59 GMT

Hi guys i have below table i need to concatenate based first two variables

suggest me please.

data have;
input sno dnum b$;
datalines;
1 2 xy
1 3 zk
2 2 df
2 3 hj
2 3 gk
3 2 mn
3 3 jj
3 4 ll
3 5 kk
4 2 hh
4 3 ji
4 4 hl
4 4 jk
4 5 kl
;

run;

output like this:

1	xy,zk
2	df,hj
2	df,gk
3	mn,jj,ll,kk
4	hh,ji,hl,kl
4	hh,ji,jk,kl

Re: vertical concatenation based on grouping variables

Reeza — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:33:20 GMT

Here's one way:

https://gist.github.com/statgeek/d583cfa992bf56da51d435165b07e96a

Not the easiest but very dynamic.

Another approach uses CATX to append each item and LAST. to export on the last record.

untested, you can uncomment the second last line to get only the last entries.

data want;
set have;
by sno;
length combined $200.;
retain combined;
if first.sno then call missing(combined);

combined= catx(', ', strip(combined), b);

*if last.sno then output;
run;

Re: vertical concatenation based on grouping variables

kyath_sas — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:24:44 GMT

sno	primarygroup1	primarygroup2	subgroup	subgroup	grouping logic
1	2
1		3			2,3

2	2
2		3			2,3
2		3			2,3

3	2
3		3
3			4
3				5	2,3,4,5

4	2
4		3
4			4
4			4		2,3,4,5
				5	2,3,4,5

Re: vertical concatenation based on grouping variables

Reeza — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:41:30 GMT

Can you add some context around that blurb of data?

@kyath_sas wrote:

sno primarygroup1 primarygroup2 subgroup subgroup grouping logic

1 2

1 3 2,3

2 2

2 3 2,3

2 3 2,3

3 2

3 3

3 4

3 5 2,3,4,5

4 2

4 3

4 4

4 4 2,3,4,5

5 2,3,4,5

Re: vertical concatenation based on grouping variables

novinosrin — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:48:34 GMT

Here is an easy solution to your 1st posted question at the top. If you are strong and familiar with Hashes, let us know. We can have some fun with that too to make it much shorter. However as of now, I do not know your comfort level. So going with simple approach->

data have;
input sno dnum  b$;
datalines;
1 2 xy
1 3 zk
2 2 df
2 3 hj
2 3 gk
3 2 mn
3 3 jj
3 4 ll
3 5 kk
4 2 hh
4 3 ji
4 4 hl
4 4 jk
4 5 kl
;

run;


proc transpose data=have out=temp;
by sno dnum;
var b;
run;
data temp2;
set temp;
array c(*) col:;
do _n_=1 to dim(c);
if missing(c(_n_)) then c(_n_)=coalescec(of c(*));
end;
keep sno col:;
run;

proc transpose data=temp2 out=temp3;
by sno  ;
var col:;
run;

data want;
set temp3;
by col: notsorted;
length want $50;
want=catx(',',of col:);
keep sno want;
run;

proc sort data=want out=final_want nodupkey;
by sno want;
run;

Re: vertical concatenation based on grouping variables

kyath_sas — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:02:47 GMT

Thank you novinosrin:-)