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I am looking to take a column off an existing dataset (Weight in the example below), do logic on it in IML and then add a new column to the existing data set (or create a new dataset with all the columns from the original and the new column).   Thank you.

 

proc iml;
ds = "Sashelp.Class";
use (ds);
read all var _NUM_ into X;
close (ds);

 

...do some vector logic using Weight...

 

...add the new column vector back onto the original dataset...

 

run;

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Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

The easiest way is to create a new data set that has the new column(s) and then merge with the original data:

 

proc iml;
ds = "Sashelp.Class";
use (ds);
read all var _NUM_ into X[c=VarNames];
close (ds);

print varNames;

weight = X[,'Weight'];
NewWeight = 2*weight;

create NewCol var "NewWeight";
append;
close;
QUIT;

data newClass;
merge Sashelp.Class NewCol;
run;

proc print data=NewClass; run;

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Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

The easiest way is to create a new data set that has the new column(s) and then merge with the original data:

 

proc iml;
ds = "Sashelp.Class";
use (ds);
read all var _NUM_ into X[c=VarNames];
close (ds);

print varNames;

weight = X[,'Weight'];
NewWeight = 2*weight;

create NewCol var "NewWeight";
append;
close;
QUIT;

data newClass;
merge Sashelp.Class NewCol;
run;

proc print data=NewClass; run;
IanWakeling
Barite | Level 11

Why not use a table?

 

proc iml;
  t = TableCreateFromDataSet("Sashelp", "Class");
  NewWeight = TableGetVarData(t, "Weight")#2;
  call TableAddVar(t, "NewWeight", NewWeight);
  call TableWriteToDataSet(t, "work", "NewClass");
quit;
proc print data=NewClass;
run;

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