topic Re: Day of the week in SAS Programming

Day of the week

malena — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:55:05 GMT

I have 4 years worth of data and want to create a new variable at the individual level looking at DOD and crete dummy variables for Fridays, weekends, other weekday

is there a quick way to do that?

thanks,

malena

Re: Day of the week

Reeza — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:57:39 GMT

Look at the WEEKDAY function

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lefunctionsref/67960/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0ahi8tk3trkv5n173sil9hd7c62.htm

Re: Day of the week

PGStats — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 02:19:49 GMT

dayCat = char("WOOOOFW", weekday(date));

Re: Day of the week

ballardw — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:22:20 GMT

@PGStats wrote:

dayCat = char("WOOOOFW", weekday(date));

Makes me want to find a reason to search EIEIO ... 🙂