Hello All, I want to flag ID's with consecutive flags as 1 and those without consecutive flags as 0. For example ID 1 is consecutive because it starts from cycle 1 to cycle 4 so I create a flag for ID 1 as 1. However for ID's with no consecutive cycle numbers like ID 2 (its starts from cycle 2 to cycle 5, missing cycle 1) and ID 3 also starts from cycle 8 missing cycles 1-7, I flags these ID's as 0. Is there a way to go about this. Thank you.
Data have;
input ID $1. Cycle;
Datalines;
1 1
1 1
1 2
1 3
1 4
2 3
2 4
2 5
3 8
3 8
;
run;
Run a DO loop:
data want;
flag = 1;
cy = -1;
do until (last.id);
set have;
by id;
if cycle gt cy + 1 then flag = 0;
cy = cycle;
end;
keep id flag;
run;
(untested, posted from my tablet)
If you want to "remerge" the flag to the original dataset, add a second DO loop that reads the same group and OUTPUTs.
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