I'm trying to recode a column to show that in column A a 1 (Numeric) = Private Passenger (Char)
I'm getting syntax errors e. g.
ERROR: The following columns were not found in the contributing tables: Private_Passenger.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
The best long term approach for this is to create a SAS format.
In EG there are two ways to create formats (actually, three ways if you don't mind writing code).
The two tasks are:
- Tasks->Data->Create Format
- Tasks->Data->Create Format from Data Set
They are both straightforward to use, but I like the second one if you have lots of values to map. It might be easier to enter the values in a data set or read them in from an Excel spreadsheet (perhaps you already have them in that form).
Once you have a SAS format, you can apply it within any task using this approach:
Just-in-time data prep in SAS Enterprise Guide - The SAS Dummy
In the Query Builder, you can also change the properties of any output column to include a custom format that you have defined.
Chris
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