Hi,
Can some one help me to get rid of this note. "NOTE: MERGE statement has more than one data set with repeats of BY values."
The following is the part of the code that is being written merging the following data sets with varied number of observations.
data abc_;
set abc;
run;
proc sort data=abc_;
by SUBJECT;
run;
data efg_;
set efg;
run;
proc sort data=efg_;
by SUBJECT;
run;
data xyz_;
set xyz;
run;
proc sort data=xyz_;
by SUBJECT;
proc sort data=der3_;
by SUBJECT;
run;
data der4;
merge der3_ (in=a) abc_ (in=b) efg_ (in=c) xyz_ (in=d);
by SUBJECT;
if c;;
run;
LOG:
Yes, which data set (besides the one that you know about) contains multiple records per SUBJECT. Since your PROC SORTs all use a temporary copy of the original data, you could just add NODUPKEY to each PROC SORT. The log will identify how many observations get removed.
Once you find out where the problem is, you need to decide what to do, to correct the data. It's mostly a decision, not a programming problem.
The note is telling you that either:
(1) You're wrong and one of the other data sets contains multiple records for a SUBJECT. (You would have to locate where that happens.)
or
(2) SUBJECT is a character variable with different lengths across the data sets. There are easy fixes if you know that this is the problem.
Yes, which data set (besides the one that you know about) contains multiple records per SUBJECT. Since your PROC SORTs all use a temporary copy of the original data, you could just add NODUPKEY to each PROC SORT. The log will identify how many observations get removed.
Once you find out where the problem is, you need to decide what to do, to correct the data. It's mostly a decision, not a programming problem.
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