Without numerous if-then-else statements, how can you create a unique numeric category ID variable from the have data set?
data have;
input category $ list $;
datalines;
A Person1
A Person2
A Person3
A Person4
B Person5
B Person6
B Person7
B Person8
C Person9
C Person10
C Person11
C Person12
D Person13
D Person14
D Person15
D Person16
;
data want;
input category_id category $ list $;
datalines;
1 A Person1
1 A Person2
1 A Person3
1 A Person4
2 B Person5
2 B Person6
2 B Person7
2 B Person8
3 C Person9
3 C Person10
3 C Person11
3 C Person12
4 D Person13
4 D Person14
4 D Person15
4 D Person16
;
Also really curious as to why, but this is quite straightforward.
data have;
input category $ list $;
want = rank(category) - 64;
datalines;
A Person1
A Person2
A Person3
A Person4
B Person5
B Person6
B Person7
B Person8
C Person9
C Person10
C Person11
C Person12
D Person13
D Person14
D Person15
D Person16
;
I suspect this will not scale to your data though so another method to iterate it here:
data want;
set have;
by category;
retain grouper 0;
if first.Category then grouper+1;
run;
@rah1992 wrote:
Without numerous if-then-else statements, how can you create a unique numeric category ID variable from the have data set?
data have; input category $ list $; datalines; A Person1 A Person2 A Person3 A Person4 B Person5 B Person6 B Person7 B Person8 C Person9 C Person10 C Person11 C Person12 D Person13 D Person14 D Person15 D Person16 ; data want; input category_id category $ list $; datalines; 1 A Person1 1 A Person2 1 A Person3 1 A Person4 2 B Person5 2 B Person6 2 B Person7 2 B Person8 3 C Person9 3 C Person10 3 C Person11 3 C Person12 4 D Person13 4 D Person14 4 D Person15 4 D Person16 ;
Also really curious as to why, but this is quite straightforward.
data have;
input category $ list $;
want = rank(category) - 64;
datalines;
A Person1
A Person2
A Person3
A Person4
B Person5
B Person6
B Person7
B Person8
C Person9
C Person10
C Person11
C Person12
D Person13
D Person14
D Person15
D Person16
;
I suspect this will not scale to your data though so another method to iterate it here:
data want;
set have;
by category;
retain grouper 0;
if first.Category then grouper+1;
run;
@rah1992 wrote:
Without numerous if-then-else statements, how can you create a unique numeric category ID variable from the have data set?
data have; input category $ list $; datalines; A Person1 A Person2 A Person3 A Person4 B Person5 B Person6 B Person7 B Person8 C Person9 C Person10 C Person11 C Person12 D Person13 D Person14 D Person15 D Person16 ; data want; input category_id category $ list $; datalines; 1 A Person1 1 A Person2 1 A Person3 1 A Person4 2 B Person5 2 B Person6 2 B Person7 2 B Person8 3 C Person9 3 C Person10 3 C Person11 3 C Person12 4 D Person13 4 D Person14 4 D Person15 4 D Person16 ;
Works great. Thanks @Reeza. Need it to feed into a user-defined macro requiring a numeric unique ID column. Not my macro and don't have time now to edit it.
My solution
data want;
set have;
numeric_id=rank(category)-rank('A')+1;
run;
but maybe this fails if you have oversimplified the category variable
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