topic Re: Create a subset by variable type in SAS Programming

Create a subset by variable type

_maldini_ — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:50:58 GMT

Is there a way to use a DATA step to create a subset of only the numeric, or character, variables in a dataset?

Thanks.

Reeza — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:55:57 GMT

What do you mean?

You can use _numeric_ or _character_ to reference all numeric or character variables.

Data num_vars;
Set have;

Keep _numeric_;
Run;

Ksharp — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:17:01 GMT

Data num_vars;
Set sashelp.class(keep=_numeric_);
Run;