Classic DoW loop flagging first variable

dweissner — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:22:32 GMT

Hi SASCommunity - I have a set of participants and a set of dates that are divided into active(active=1) and postactive(active=0) periods. I'd like to flag the first date of each active period for each partipant.

For example, in the following dataset I would like to have a FLAG variable as follows (forgive me if syntaxical error here - I'm a NEWBY to SAS):

data participantperiods;

input participants dates active FLAG;

datalines;

1 date1 1 1

1 date2 1 0

1 date3 0 0

2 date4 1 1

2 date5 1 0

2 date6 1 0

2 date7 0 0

2 date8 0 0;

run;

I would like this to be in the form of a classic 2xDoW loop. This is what I have developed so far, but it is overflagging unfortunately:

data WANT;
     do until (last.PARTICIPANT);
          set HAVE;
          by PARTICIPANT;
          if first.PARTICIPANT then FIRSTFLAG=1;
     end;
     do until (last.PARTICIPANT);
          set HAVE;
          by PARTICIPANT;
     output;
     end;

     do until (last.PARTICIPANT);
          set HAVE;
          by PARTICIPANT;
          if FIRSTFLAG=1 and ACTIVE=1 then FIRSTACTIVEFLAG=1;
     end;

     do until (last.case_no);
          set Encountersbydayvendor4;
          by case_no;
          output;
     end;
run;

Re: Classic DoW loop flagging first variable

ballardw — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:42:01 GMT

It appears as if the data is sorted by participants and descending active. If that is the case then this should work:

data want;
   set participantperiods;
   by participants descending active;
   if first.participants and first.active and active=1 then flag=1;
   else flag=0;
run;

if not then sort by participants descending active and date may get what you are looking for.

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