topic Re: Selecting Data based off of Date and ID in SAS Programming

Selecting Data based off of Date and ID

A_SAS_Man — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:57:51 GMT

I am trying to select data based off of date and id from another table and summing a third column. Hopefully the below illustrates what I'm trying to do.

data reference_table;
infile datalines dlm='#';
 input id & $1. date date7. product $ dollars;
 format date ddmmyy.;
 datalines;
1# 01JAN17# shoe# 200
1# 01Mar18# shoe# 200
1# 01Sep15# shoe# 200
2# 01Feb19# shoe# 200
2# 01Jul18# shoe# 200
2# 01Jun17# tops# 200
3# 01Aug14# tops# 300
3# 01Dec13# tape# 200
4# 01May17# tape# 200
4# 01Sep17# limo# 800
5# 01Apr16# hats# 500
5# 01Oct18# pens# 500
 ;
 run;

data new_month_ids;
 infile datalines dlm='#';
 input id & $1. date date7.;
  format date ddmmyy.;
 datalines;
1# '01Jan17'd
2# '13Feb19'd
3# '28Dec13'd
4# '27Jun17'd
 ;
run;

From these two tables I am trying to do a query involving both which selects all the id's that appear in the "new_month_ids" table, and sum all of the dollars from the reference table that occurred within two years of the date in the "new_month_ids" table by both id and product. I believe the below table is what the final result should look like.

 data want;
 infile datalines dlm='#';
 input id & $1. product $ dollars;
 datalines;
 1# shoe# 400
 2# shoe# 200
 2# tops# 200
 3# tape# 200
 4# tape# 200
 4# limo# 800
;
run;

Notice for example, for id 1 we only sum two of the lines because those are the only two that appear within the two year time frame 01Jan2015-01Jan2017.

Below is my attempt at this, but when I run this code it returns no values. I have a feeling this might be related to my date format in the intnx function but I haven't figured it out yet.

proc sql;
create table test as
	select a.id,
		   a.product,
		   sum(a.dollars) as dollars
	from reference_table a left join new_month_ids b on
		 (a.id=b.id)
	where a.id in (select distinct b.id from new_month_ids b)
		  And
		  intnx('year',b.date,-2,'same')<=a.date<=b.date
	group by a.id,
			 a.product
;
quit;

Any help is appreciated.

Re: Selecting Data based off of Date and ID

ballardw — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:36:19 GMT

If that is actually how you built the NEW_MONTH_IDS data set then that code is the major problem.

When I run

proc print data=new_month_ids;
  var date;
  format date date9.;
run;

The result is

Obs         date

 1     01JAN2001
 2     13FEB2001
 3     28DEC2001
 4     27JUN2001

Why did you have the date literal format?

Try

data new_month_ids;
 infile datalines ;
 input id : $1. date :date7.;
  format date ddmmyy.;
 datalines;
1 01Jan17
2 13Feb19
3 28Dec13
4 27Jun17
 ;
run;

After fixing that data set so the dates are correct I get 4 records and a message about invalid arguments to INTNX because the

NEW_MONTH_IDS data set does not have all the IDs that are in the reference set.

Your data does not support getting all of the desired output.

4# 01Sep17# limo# 800

does not occur in the interval for 4 in the months set : 4 27Jun17 as Sep17 comes AFTER Jun 17 so that can't pull the 4 limo 800 into the result

This gets closer to the output desired barring the date issue above

proc sql;
   create table test as
	select a.id,
		   a.product,
		   sum(a.dollars) as dollars
	from reference_table a left join new_month_ids b on
		 (a.id=b.id)
   where intnx('year',b.date,-2,'same')<= a.date <= b.date
	group by a.id,
			 a.product
;
quit;

Re: Selecting Data based off of Date and ID

A_SAS_Man — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:00:03 GMT

I am not sure why I did the dates that way, I was adjusting them trying to get it to work earlier and I must have been off that whole time. Thanks!