topic Re: Auto rename rows when (or before) running proc transpose in SAS Procedures

Auto rename rows when (or before) running proc transpose

viuf — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:07:37 GMT

Hi all

I have a dataset as shown below. I would like to do a transpose so the variables will come from the column "name" and the values from "val1".

name	val1	val2	val3	val4
Income	819772	819772	819772	819772
Interestrate	383884	383884	383884	383884
BANK	422388	422388	422388	422388
Børnefamilieydelse	13500	13500	13500	13500
Pensionsindtægter	0	0	0	0
Housing	317914	303766	300673	297636
Interestrate	75800	75800	75800	75800
Husleje	52800	52800	52800	52800
Interestrate	4800	4800	4800	4800
El	5600	5600	5600	5600
Kabel TV	10800	10800	10800	10800

I'm planning to do a proc tranpose like this and it seems to do the job fine.

proc transpose data=want

out=transpose

name=val1;

id name;

run;

My problem is that duplicates will occur and there is no way of knowing which. I therefore need a smart way to automatically rename these duplicates while (or before) running the Proc Transpose.

What I would like is either a solution where the new name is constructed on the basis of a foremer name (preferable) or a solution where the duplicates are numbered. I imagine it can look like this:

Result (based on group values):

Income Income-Interestrate ... Housing Housing-Interestrate

xxx xxx xxx xxxx

or maybe (based on number):

Income Interestrate1 ... Housing Interestrate2

xxx xxx xxx xxx

Hope someone can help - Thanks

Re: Auto rename rows when (or before) running proc transpose

art297 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:38:07 GMT

If you look at your original dataset there is an id variable. You could just capture it, when you create your dataset, and use it as a by variable when running proc transpose.

Re: Auto rename rows when (or before) running proc transpose

Jagadishkatam — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:26:07 GMT

Hi,

in this case, you can count the number of repetitive name and assign the serial number adjacent to the name and then transpose it. I have followed the same procedure.

i hope this helps you.

name	val1	val2	val3	val4
Income	819772	819772	819772	819772
Interestrate	383884	383884	383884	383884
BANK	422388	422388	422388	422388
Børnefamilieydelse	13500	13500	13500	13500
Pensionsindtægter	0	0	0	0
Housing	317914	303766	300673	297636
Interestrate	75800	75800	75800	75800
Husleje	52800	52800	52800	52800
Interestrate	4800	4800	4800	4800
El	5600	5600	5600	5600
Kabel TV	10800	10800	10800	10800

dataset have is above;

proc sort data=have;

by name;

run;

data have_;

set have;

retain count;

by name;

if first.name then count=1;

else count+1;

if count > 1 then new_name=cats(name,count);

else new_name=name;

run;

proc transpose data=have_ out=want name=var1;

id new_name;

var val1;

run;

proc print;

run;

Good Luck.

Thanks,

Jagadish