Here is my example dataset:
fruit apple
fruit apple
fruit orange
fruit orange
fruit orange
vegetable celery
vegetable broccoli
meat beef
meat chicken
How do I create a third column, that identifies the group number in column 1?
The resulting dataset should look like this
fruit apple 1
fruit apple 1
fruit orange 1
fruit orange 1
fruit orange 1
vegetable celery 2
vegetable broccoli 2
meat beef 3
meat chicken 3
data want;
set have;
by col1 notsorted;
retain subgroup 0;
if first.col1 then subgroup + 1;
run;
You might consider sorting by col1 first, so you can omit the notsorted option and make sure that a certain subgroup does not receive more than one number.
data want;
set have;
by col1 notsorted;
retain subgroup 0;
if first.col1 then subgroup + 1;
run;
You might consider sorting by col1 first, so you can omit the notsorted option and make sure that a certain subgroup does not receive more than one number.
Thanks!
I have other string columns in my RETAIN statement. It doesn't seem to work if I put those columns in front of subgroup 0. Anyway around this?
@schoi wrote:
Thanks!
I have other string columns in my RETAIN statement. It doesn't seem to work if I put those columns in front of subgroup 0. Anyway around this?
In order for in-depth help, post your code (with log if code fails with ERROR or WARNING) and some example data to test the code against. See @PeterClemmensen's example data step for how to post data.
data have;
input food$ type$;
datalines;
fruit apple
fruit apple
fruit orange
fruit orange
fruit orange
vegetable celery
vegetable broccoli
meat beef
meat chicken
;
proc sort data=have;
by food;
run;
data want;
set have;
by food;
if first.food then groupnum+1;
run;
Thanks everyone!
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