topic Re: limiting number of decimals in a common statement in SAS Programming

limiting number of decimals in a common statement

mgrzyb — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:47:59 GMT

HI. HAPPY NY~~

I have a question.

How does one limit the number of digits to the right of the decimal to round to the tenth?

For example:

proc means n mean stderr clm min max range data= avisits1;
vars

var diff_bg q_pre_gluc q_post_gluc;
run;

I only want .Xth rounded.

Thanks.

Re: limiting number of decimals in a common statement

novinosrin — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:14:06 GMT

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=proc&docsetTarget=n1qnc9bddfvhzqn105kqitnf29cp.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en#n1m8zxfes82ykcn1ij2cy50zo7c8 MAXDEC=number specifies the maximum number of decimal places to display the statistics in the printed or displayed output. MAXDEC= has no effect on statistics that are saved in an output data set. Default BEST. width for columnar format, typically about 7. Range 0-8 See Computing Descriptive Statistics with Class Variables Using a CLASSDATA= Data Set with Class Variables


PROC MEANS DATA=sashelp.class MEAN  MAXDEC=1;
 VAR height;
 run;

Re: limiting number of decimals in a common statement

mgrzyb — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:42:02 GMT

Thank you.

I hate to bother you, but is there any way that you could write it out in
code? I have problems reading the SAS documentation. I wish they had
examples b/c that's how most persons learn best.

If you can. If you can't, I will give a try, but I am hopeful.

Re: limiting number of decimals in a common statement

novinosrin — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:55:55 GMT

@mgrzyb wrote:
Thank you.

I hate to bother you, but is there any way that you could write it out in
code?
Not sure i understand what you mean
PROC MEANS DATA=sashelp.class MEAN  MAXDEC=1;
 VAR height weight;
 run; 

Re: limiting number of decimals in a common statement

mgrzyb — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:59:14 GMT

THANK YOU! SOLVED!!!!!!

Re: limiting number of decimals in a common statement

Reeza — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:58:47 GMT

Please mark the question as solved, with the appropriate solution marked.