topic Re: Avoid the warning message in SAS Programming

Avoid the warning message

Ivy — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:34:38 GMT

I would like to try to avoid the warning message:

NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by:

med_range =compress(round(median_,0.1)) || " ("||compress(round(min_,0.1))||"-"||compress(round(max_,0.1))||")";

If I use put function to change rouned value to character, what the best format I should use considering the big variance of the date value ?

Thank you very much.

RW9 — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:43:25 GMT

An example of your data as a datastep would be ideal. At a guess:

data want;
  set have;
  med_range=cats(put(round(median_,.1),8.1)," (",put(round(min_,.1),8.1),"-",put(round(max_,.1),8.1),")");
run;

Reeza — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:39:43 GMT

Try using a CATT or CATS function instead. They do the conversion and I usually find it easier to read rather than the double pipe.

You can usually avoid the COMPRESS() as well, since CATT trims variables.

Ivy — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:56:53 GMT

Thank you very much, RW9 and Reeza, that helps !