topic Re: How to carry the label of a source variable when creating a new variable in SAS Programming

How to carry the label of a source variable when creating a new variable

knveraraju91 — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:09:58 GMT

Dear,

In my pgm, when i created variables d,e f, in data step two, I am seeing the variable labels for these variables. i need to carry labels of source variables. Please suggest

data one;
input a $ b $ c;
label a ='some' b='somm' c='somn';
datalines;
nn ss 1
dk mm 2
;

data two;
set one;
d=a;
e=b;
f=c;
run;

Re: How to carry the label of a source variable when creating a new variable

ballardw — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:44:59 GMT

Create a data set with the names of the variables and labels from the starting set.

Add the matching new variable names to that data set.

Use the data set to write Proc Datasets code to modify data set 2 after creation to use the labels.

You can find some examples on the forum of using Call Execute in a data step to call Proc datasets to rename variables, label syntax would be similar using the New name and old label in a modify block.

Re: How to carry the label of a source variable when creating a new variable

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:46:17 GMT

data two;
merge
  one
  one (rename=(a=d b=e c=f))
;
run;

Re: How to carry the label of a source variable when creating a new variable

FreelanceReinh — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:59:34 GMT

Hi @knveraraju91,

Another option:

proc sql;
create table two as
select *, a as d, b as e, c as f
from one;
quit;