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JohnPura
Calcite | Level 5

I have a list of observations and for each observation, I have a several dates, so that it looks something like this:

ObsDates
11/20/2004
23/25/2004,2/13/2006,3/30/2006,2/13/2006
3.
4

7/15/2004,10/01/2004,4/20/2004

5

6/1/2004,1/20/2006,6/1/2007,8/1/2007,3/1/2009,5/13/2004

A single observation could have one date repeated. Essentially I want to go from the above table to something like this:

ObsDates
11/20/2004
23/25/2004
22/13/2006
23/30/2006
3.

and so on....

The above now has multiple records for a single patient, based on the number of UNIQUE dates from the first table.

How can I go from the first table to the second in SAS? I'm very grateful for your help.

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Ksharp
Super User

OK.

data have;
infile cards expandtabs dlm=' ';
input obs dates : $200. ;
cards;
1     1/20/2004
2     3/25/2004,2/13/2006,3/30/2006,2/13/2006
3     .
4     7/15/2004,10/01/2004,4/20/2004
5     6/1/2004,1/20/2006,6/1/2007,8/1/2007,3/1/2009,5/13/2004
;
run;
data temp;
 set have;
 do i=1 to countw(dates,',');
  date=scan(dates,i,',');
  output;
 end;
 keep obs date;
 run;
 proc sort data=temp out=want nodupkey;
 by obs date;
 run;

Ksharp

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Ksharp
Super User

OK.

data have;
infile cards expandtabs dlm=' ';
input obs dates : $200. ;
cards;
1     1/20/2004
2     3/25/2004,2/13/2006,3/30/2006,2/13/2006
3     .
4     7/15/2004,10/01/2004,4/20/2004
5     6/1/2004,1/20/2006,6/1/2007,8/1/2007,3/1/2009,5/13/2004
;
run;
data temp;
 set have;
 do i=1 to countw(dates,',');
  date=scan(dates,i,',');
  output;
 end;
 keep obs date;
 run;
 proc sort data=temp out=want nodupkey;
 by obs date;
 run;

Ksharp

JohnPura
Calcite | Level 5

As a followup, how can I create the following table:

ObsDate1Date2
1'StartDate1'1/20/2004
2'StartDate2'2/13/2006
22/13/20063/25/2004
23/25/20043/30/2006
3..

How can I tell SAS to create the column Date1 by grabbing values from the previous row of Date2? The StartDate's I can do based on first.Date1 = 'StartDate'. I'm just stuck on getting the rest of the values.

Thanks!

DavidRice
Fluorite | Level 6

Could you use the lag() function?  Something like date1=lag(date2)

David

Ksharp
Super User

as David said, using LAG() function:

data want;

  set want;

  date1=lag(date);

  if obs ne lag(obs) then call missing(date1);

run;

Ksharp

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