Can you help me to Create a macro variable that will keep the largest value of NHITS from SASHELP.BASEBALL dataset.?
Sure. But why?
Do you have a preferred method?
Here is a pure data step approach
data _null_;
set sashelp.baseball end = z;
if NHITS > n then n = NHITS;
if z then call symputx('maxNHITS', n);
retain n;
run;
%put &maxNHITS.;
Try this
proc sql noprint;
select max(NHITS)
into :maxNHITS
from sashelp.baseball
;
quit;
%put &maxNHITS.;
Sir, is there any chance to solve this without using SQL ?
Sure. But why?
Do you have a preferred method?
Here is a pure data step approach
data _null_;
set sashelp.baseball end = z;
if NHITS > n then n = NHITS;
if z then call symputx('maxNHITS', n);
retain n;
run;
%put &maxNHITS.;
Thank you so much Peter 🙂
The SQL will be my next lesson that's why i asked you that.
Instead of
if NHITS > n then n = NHITS;
I would use
n = max(n,nhits);
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