topic Re: Variable creation in SAS Programming

Variable creation

Sasy9873 — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:25:43 GMT

{Urgent} I am fairly new to SAS and have two questions.

First, I am trying to run this code. Would I need to run the data temp;set EHdata.ARCHdata; line with the other code I've written everytime> Because, when I do not, I get this error message:

Second, I am trying to create this new variable ANCComplication using categorical variables that already exist in my dataset. Here is the code I've written:

However, when I run a proc freq of ANCComplication, I get this:

Let me know what I am doing wrong for both of these problems! Thank you!

Re: Variable creation

PeterClemmensen — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:28:34 GMT

Hi and welcome to the SAS Communities 🙂

Can you please post your code using the little running man instead of posting it as images? Makes it much easier to provide a usable answer.

Re: Variable creation

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:30:40 GMT

For your first question: "if" is a data step statement and works only inside a data step; the "run;" right before your if's constitutes a "step boundary", meaning the previous step is finished and you need to start a new one. Or if you did not want the previous step to finish yet, remove that run.

I recommend that you work through the free online Programming 1 course, where such issues are covered.

Please post code using the "little running man" icon.