topic Re: Proc Print in SAS Procedures

Proc Print

UIC_Student — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:46:05 GMT

I have a simple code such as below

libname hwtest '/folders/myfolders/HPA477';

data h477;
set hwtest.whq_e;
run;
data h4772;
set hwtest.demo_e;
run;

proc sort data =h477;
by seqn;
run;
proc sort data=h4772;
by seqn;
run;

data merged;
merge h477 h4772;
by seqn;
run;

proc print data=merged;
run;

that is taking a very long time to run and I have to cancel each time. This is SAS University Edition .

Re: Proc Print

pearsoninst — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:07:38 GMT

For Long dataset it is good not to print just see the dataset as dataset or Export the dataset and explore..

Re: Proc Print

Reeza — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:57:30 GMT

Which apart is taking a long time to run. Also, you don't need the first two steps - combine those into your proc sort to help speed things up:

proc sort data=hwtest.whq_e out=h477;
by seqn;
run;

And as @pearsoninst mentioned, remove the proc print.