Hello all,
So I have the following code below. dataset sample1 is sorted by id and priority. What does "if obs=1; drop obs;" mean and why would it drop obs? Does it also mean that if obs>1, the obs is still there? Help please.
data sample;set sample1;by id priority;if first.id thenobs=0;obs+1;if obs=1;drop obs;run;
Takes the first observation for each value of ID.
Same as this code:
data sample; set sample1; by id priority; if first.id ; run;
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