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NKormanik
Barite | Level 11

I want to merge 9 files.

 

Each of the files has the same 3 variables:

 

X, Y, Percent  (out datasets from 9 Proc Freq runs)

 

Two issues come up:

 

-- Do I have to rename Y in each of the files beforehand?  (Doesn't SAS automatically do that?)

 

-- I don't want to keep the Percent column in any of the files. How to most easily dump that one?

 

 

data merged;
merge one
merge two
merge three;
.
merge nine
by X;
run

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

Nicholas Kormanik

 

 

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Ksharp
Super User

You have to rename Y since SAS would not do it for you, Keep the variables you need.

 

data merged;
merge 
one(keep=x y rename=(y=y1))
two(keep=x y rename=(y=y2)
three(keep=x y rename=(y=y3))
....
nine(keep=x y rename=(y=y9));
by X;
run;

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Ksharp
Super User

You have to rename Y since SAS would not do it for you, Keep the variables you need.

 

data merged;
merge 
one(keep=x y rename=(y=y1))
two(keep=x y rename=(y=y2)
three(keep=x y rename=(y=y3))
....
nine(keep=x y rename=(y=y9));
by X;
run;
NKormanik
Barite | Level 11

Thank you, Xia Keshan!  Beautifully done.

 

By the way, really good to see you back here.  What a wonderful asset to this community.

 

Nicholas

 

 

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