difference in weeks sas datetime

[chemicalab]

Hi all,

I have following column date with this format (datetime) 20JUL16:16:39:12 and i am trying to first get the max date of it per ID and then i want to calculate the difference in weeks between each date and the max date, how can i do that?

Thank you in advance

[chemicalab]

Hi all,

I have following column date with this format (datetime) 20JUL16:16:39:12 and i am trying to first get the max date of it per ID and then i want to calculate the difference in weeks between each date and the max date, how can i do that?

Thank you in advance

[TomKari]

This should get you much of the way there. Note that there are many, many options for the intck function in terms of how you want the difference calculated, so adjust as necessary.

Tom

data have;

input ID DT datetime.;

format DT datetime.;

cards;

1 01Jan2016:00:00:00

1 01Feb2016:00:00:00

2 01Apr2016:00:00:00

2 01Mar2016:00:00:00

run;

proc means noprint nway;

class ID;

var DT;

output out=inter1(drop=_TYPE_ _FREQ_) max()=;

run;

data datecomp;

input ID DT2 datetime.;

format DT2 datetime.;

cards;

1 01Jan2016:00:00:00

1 06Jan2016:00:00:00

1 11Jan2016:00:00:00

1 16Jan2016:00:00:00

1 21Jan2016:00:00:00

1 26Jan2016:00:00:00

1 31Jan2016:00:00:00

1 05Feb2016:00:00:00

1 10Feb2016:00:00:00

1 15Feb2016:00:00:00

1 20Feb2016:00:00:00

1 25Feb2016:00:00:00

1 01Mar2016:00:00:00

1 06Mar2016:00:00:00

1 11Mar2016:00:00:00

1 16Mar2016:00:00:00

1 21Mar2016:00:00:00

1 26Mar2016:00:00:00

1 31Mar2016:00:00:00

1 05Apr2016:00:00:00

1 10Apr2016:00:00:00

1 15Apr2016:00:00:00

1 20Apr2016:00:00:00

1 25Apr2016:00:00:00

2 07Jul2016:00:00:00

run;

proc sql noprint;

create table want as

select i.ID,

i.DT,

d.DT2,

intck('dtweek',DT2,DT) as Diff

from inter1 i inner join datecomp d on(i.ID = d.ID);

quit;

[chemicalab]

Thank you very much for the reply

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

First thing you would do is to find the max(date) then merge that to the original date, then do an intck on the two, something like (and you have not posted any test data in the form of a datastep or required output, so this is just concept):

proc sql;
  create table WANT as
  select   A.*,
           B.DTE,
           intck("week",A.DATE,B.DTE) as WEEKS
  from     HAVE A
  left join (select max(DATE) as DTE from HAVE group by ID) B
  on       A.ID=B.ID;
quit;

[chemicalab]

works like a charm, thank you very much for this, date functions are always giving me a hard time