topic Re: Label in SAS Programming

Label

apple — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:17:54 GMT

How do I give the variables new names in Proc Tabulate, means?

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Re: Label

Ruchita — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:07:44 GMT

Dear Apple,

You can use rename option to give new names to the variables in Proc Tabulate and Means.

PROC TABULATE DATA=TRY OUT=TEST (RENAME=(N=Count));
CLASS VAR1 VAR2 VAR3;
TABLE VAR1 VAR2 VAR3;
RUN;

PROC MEANS DATA=TRY N MEAN MAX ;
OUTPUT OUT=TEST1 (RENAME=(_STAT_=COUNT1));
RUN;

Hope this helps !!

Re: Label

ballardw — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:18:20 GMT

If you want to display a different label for a variable then add a label statement to the proc

label var ='Text to display'; for example;

Or in tabulate you can override the default label in the table statement

table var='Text to display', n;

If you want the Values to display differently then a custom format may be in order.

Re: Label

apple — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:04:30 GMT

I don't understand. Where am I supposed to state the new names in the code?

I need it for Proc Freq

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Re: Label

apple — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:05:30 GMT

table var='Text to display', n;

What is n?

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Re: Label

RichardinOz — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:31:34 GMT

apple

In the case of Proc SQL it goes like this

...

Select ...

stuff label = "New label for stuff" ,

...

Richard in NZ

Re: Label

ballardw — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:31:23 GMT

The n is was using Proc Tabulate syntax to show a count of the variable.

Note the Proc Freq processes labels differently than Proc tabulate. Freq will show the variable name and the label(if any) while tabulate only displays the label or the variable name if no label is assigned.