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matt23
Quartz | Level 8

Hi,

My data looks something like this:

input load day month 
datalines:
12345 0 12
12456 1 12
12222 2 12
14532 3 12
15111 4 12
15222 5 12
15333 6 12
;

and so on. I want to group into weekdays and weekends where day (6,0) = weekend and (1,2,3,4,5) = weekday

and then make a scatterplot to compare weekend load vs weekday load

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Reeza
Super User

Close. 

 

You create the weekday variable as indicated by a previous poster. That value is stored in the variable PERIOD. Then you would put that variable name in the GROUP = section. 

 

data have;
input load day month temperature;
weekday_end = ifc(day in (0,6), 'Weekend', 'Weekday', .);
datalines;
12345 0 12 35
12456 1 12 33
12222 2 12 32
14532 3 12 31
15111 4 12 25
15222 5 12 24
15333 6 12 33
;
   proc sgplot data=have;
      title 'Weekend Load vs Weekday Load';
      scatter x=Temperature y=Load / group= weekday_end;
   run;

@matt23 wrote:

Sorry this was a bad data example. Here's better representation

input load day month temperature
datalines:
12345 0 12 35
12456 1 12 33
12222 2 12 32
14532 3 12 31
15111 4 12 25
15222 5 12 24
15333 6 12 33
;

And now I want to do a grouped scatter plot:

   proc sgplot data=dataname;
      title 'Weekend Load vs Weekday Load';
      scatter x=Temperature y=Load / group=?? Weekend or Wekkday ??;
   run;

how would I edit my code so it counts day 0 and 6 as weekend and the rest as weekdays?


 

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

With minimal information to go on:

data want;
  set have;
  length period $20;
  period=ifc(day in (6,0),"Weekend","Weekday");
run;

 

matt23
Quartz | Level 8

Sorry this was a bad data example. Here's better representation

input load day month temperature
datalines:
12345 0 12 35
12456 1 12 33
12222 2 12 32
14532 3 12 31
15111 4 12 25
15222 5 12 24
15333 6 12 33
;

And now I want to do a grouped scatter plot:

   proc sgplot data=dataname;
      title 'Weekend Load vs Weekday Load';
      scatter x=Temperature y=Load / group=?? Weekend or Wekkday ??;
   run;

how would I edit my code so it counts day 0 and 6 as weekend and the rest as weekdays?

ballardw
Super User

@matt23 wrote:

Sorry this was a bad data example. Here's better representation

input load day month temperature
datalines:
12345 0 12 35
12456 1 12 33
12222 2 12 32
14532 3 12 31
15111 4 12 25
15222 5 12 24
15333 6 12 33
;

And now I want to do a grouped scatter plot:

   proc sgplot data=dataname;
      title 'Weekend Load vs Weekday Load';
      scatter x=Temperature y=Load / group=?? Weekend or Wekkday ??;
   run;

how would I edit my code so it counts day 0 and 6 as weekend and the rest as weekdays?


Use @RW9's code to add period (or other likely variable name) and use that variable with the group= option.

Or create a custom format, apply that format to the day variable and use day as the group variable.

Reeza
Super User

Close. 

 

You create the weekday variable as indicated by a previous poster. That value is stored in the variable PERIOD. Then you would put that variable name in the GROUP = section. 

 

data have;
input load day month temperature;
weekday_end = ifc(day in (0,6), 'Weekend', 'Weekday', .);
datalines;
12345 0 12 35
12456 1 12 33
12222 2 12 32
14532 3 12 31
15111 4 12 25
15222 5 12 24
15333 6 12 33
;
   proc sgplot data=have;
      title 'Weekend Load vs Weekday Load';
      scatter x=Temperature y=Load / group= weekday_end;
   run;

@matt23 wrote:

Sorry this was a bad data example. Here's better representation

input load day month temperature
datalines:
12345 0 12 35
12456 1 12 33
12222 2 12 32
14532 3 12 31
15111 4 12 25
15222 5 12 24
15333 6 12 33
;

And now I want to do a grouped scatter plot:

   proc sgplot data=dataname;
      title 'Weekend Load vs Weekday Load';
      scatter x=Temperature y=Load / group=?? Weekend or Wekkday ??;
   run;

how would I edit my code so it counts day 0 and 6 as weekend and the rest as weekdays?


 

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