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strqimr
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

I AM WORKING ON A SAS DATA SET  CONTAINING 1999 IDs. MOST OF THEM CONTAINS MULTIPLE ROWS (APPROXIMATELY 100000 ROWS IN TOTAL ). THERE IS ANOTHER VARIABLE IN THE DATA SET NAMED "HISTORY" HAVING VALUES "Y" AND "N".

I WANT TO DELETE THE IDs WHO HAVE ONLY ONE ROW AND HISTORY VALUE "Y". 

I AM NEW SAS USER AND COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS. PLEASE HELP ME. ATTACHED IS A SAMPLE FILE.  

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

Please don't post the same question multiple times. I answered earlier 

dw25774
Calcite | Level 5

data temp;

   input id $ history $;

   datalines;

T101 Y

T101 Y

T101 Y

T102 Y

T103 Y

T103 Y

;

run;

 

proc sql;

    create table count as

   select id, count(id) as count, history

  from temp

  group by id

;

quit;

 

data temp2;

   set count (where=(history='Y' and count > 1));

run;

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