topic Re: How to calculate totals in SAS Programming

How to calculate totals

vinod4842 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:55:00 GMT

I am looking for salary total. What can I do for that? Please rectify my query.

proc import datafile="C:\Users\user\Desktop\result of sas\Assignments\EMPLOYEE.csv" out=work.employee dbms=csv replace; 
run; 


data emp; 
FORMAT salary dollar8.; 
set work.employee; 
run;

Re: How to calculate totals

jdwaterman91 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:07:33 GMT

There are multiple ways of acquiring the sum of a column in SAS.

Here are a couple of ways that could work for you.

data Sums;
Set Employee end = last;
Retain Total;
Total + Salary;
keep Total;
if last;
Run;

Proc SQL;
Select Sum(salary) As Total_Sum
From employee;
Quit;

Re: How to calculate totals

vinod4842 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:15:03 GMT

57 Proc SQL;
58 Select Sum(salary) As Total_Sum
59 From employee;
ERROR: The SUM summary function requires a numeric argument.
60 Quit;

i applied this one but it is not accepted ad showing error

Re: How to calculate totals

kiranv_ — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:47:36 GMT

please use proc contents to see whether your column is numeric value or not and also see whether you are using column label instead of column name(I think this is what might be happening).

Re: How to calculate totals

Reeza — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:52:28 GMT

@kiranv_ wrote:

please use proc contents to see whether your column is numeric value or not and also see whether you are using column label instead of column name(I think this is what might be happening).

@kiranv_ I think Salary is a character column. You can see that becauses it's aligned right. Numeric columns are aligned left and characters are aligned right, by default.

Re: How to calculate totals

kiranv_ — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:54:22 GMT

Yes, You are right @Reeza