topic Re: Pick observations in SAS Programming

Pick observations

112211 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:57:19 GMT

Use Sashelp.class

Pick observations that are 5,1,17,15,12 in the mentioned order (that order only not in ascending and descending) .

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 05:03:59 GMT

Hint: POINT= option of the SET statement, and DO loop with a list of values.

s_lassen — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:12:58 GMT

As @Kurt_Bremser suggested, something like this:

data want;
  do p=5,1,17,15,12;
    set sashelp.class point=p;
    output;
    end;
  stop;
run;