topic Re: Split Dataset by Year from mm/dd/yyyy Format in SAS Procedures

Split Dataset by Year from mm/dd/yyyy Format

Tegan — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:07:20 GMT

I have a dataset ("Dataset1") with a date column ("Date"). The format is mm/dd/yyyy.

I want to make multiple data files with the information from the rows split up by year.

So it would go from Dataset1 to datasets "1999" and "1998" etc.

Can someone help me with the code?

Re: Split Dataset by Year from mm/dd/yyyy Format

Reeza — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:55:54 GMT

Why do you want to split up your datasets? This is a commonly asked question, the answer is usually don't do it.

The manual example, that assumes that your date variable is a SAS numeric variable with a date format, not a character variable:

data Y1998 Y1999;

set have;

if year(date) = 1998 then output Y1998;

else if year(date) = 1999 then output Y1999;

run;

Re: Split Dataset by Year from mm/dd/yyyy Format

Tegan — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:06:55 GMT

I have millions of records spread over 25 datasets which are all by year. So I have 25 yearly datasets containing variables A-Y 1999, A-Y 2000, A-Y 2001...And I have one dataset for Variable Z 1999-2001. I need to split the Variable Z dataset up by year so I can remerge it with Variables A-Y to make A-Z variables for each year in one dataset.

Does that make sense?

The dataset which has one key and 25 years worth of data was uploaded from a text file. It was a vertical bar delimited file which was just Key (123), Date (01/01/2001), etc. etc...So it didn't specify a format, I think SAS just reads it as a character string, right?

data Y1998 Y1999; --> This creates output datasets?

set have; -->I don't know what a set statement is

if year(date) = 1998 then output Y1998; -->So if the variable name is "datevariable" then it would be "if year(datevariable) = 1998 then output Y1998;"?

else if year(date) = 1999 then output Y1999; -->And I just add as many of these statements as there are years?

run;

Re: Split Dataset by Year from mm/dd/yyyy Format

Reeza — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:10:06 GMT

Why not merge it directly? 1 million records isn't that big of a dataset.

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