topic Re: R's As.Name() in SAS in SAS Procedures

R's As.Name() in SAS

Nargess — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:49:00 GMT

Hi,

does anyone who knows both R and SAS have an idea what is the equivalent of As.Name() function in R? What As.Name() does is using a string value of one variable as another variable name.

Thanks,

Nargess

Re: R's As.Name() in SAS

Reeza — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:54:01 GMT

Depends on how you were planning to use it.

VValueX may be one option

or Rename could be another.

Re: R's As.Name() in SAS

Rick_SAS — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:30:09 GMT

The SAS procedure that is closest to R is SAS/IML. In SAS/IML, you can use the VALUE and VALSET functions to get or assign values to matrices whose name is given by a string. See the article Indirect assignment: How to create and use matrices named x1, x2,…, xn - The DO Loop

Re: R's As.Name() in SAS

LinusH — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:05:29 GMT

And if we are "outside" IML I come to think of SAS File functions and/or macro programming.