topic Re: need max column value based on latest date in SAS Programming

need max column value based on latest date

Arjun_Ram — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:17:35 GMT

Hi,

I have a dataset as below

ID	Col1	Col2	Mon	Year
101	X	Y	1	2021
101	X	Y	2	2021
101	X	Y	2	2021
101	X	Y	3	2021
101	X	Z	4	2021
101	Z	Y	4	2021
101	X	Y	5	2021
102	X	Y	4	2021
102	Z	Y	4	2021
102	A	B	5	2021

I want the latest col1 and col2 values based on the latest month and year to be populated. Like below.

ID	Col1	Col2	Col1_2	Col2_2	Mon	Year
101	X	Y	X	Y	1	2021
101	X	Y	X	Y	2	2021
101	X	Y	X	Y	2	2021
101	X	Y	X	Y	3	2021
101	X	Z	X	Y	4	2021
101	Z	Y	X	Y	4	2021
101	X	Y	X	Y	5	2021
102	X	Y	A	B	4	2021
102	Z	Y	A	B	4	2021
102	A	B	A	B	5	2021

Any suggestions. Thanks in advance

Re: need max column value based on latest date

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:31:17 GMT

Welcome to the communities!

Given that your dataset is already sorted, a double DO loop does this quite nicely:

data want;
do until (last.id);
  set have;
  by id;
end;
col1_2 = col1;
col2_2 = col2;
do until (last.id);
  set have;
  by id;
  output;
end;
run;

Re: need max column value based on latest date

Patrick — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:17:55 GMT

Using a SQL:

proc sql;
  create table want as
    select 
      l.*,
      r.col1_2,
      r.col2_2
  from 
    have l
    left join
      ( select id, col1 as col1_2, col2 as col2_2
        from have
        group by id, year
        having max(mon)=mon
      ) r
  on l.id=r.id
  order by id, year, mon
  ;
quit;