I have a data set, which is a balance sheet, that I imported from Excel that looks like:
Variable Amount
Gaming Equipment, Vehicles and Other Equipment 585860
Revenue 1000490
I successfully was able to import the above data set by using length variable $78 to include all the words in gaming, equipment, vehicles and other equipment.
I would like to transpose the data set. I can successfully do so by doing the following.
proc transpose data=work.BS out=BS_transpose;
id variable;
var Amount;
run;
The problem is that the variable name "Gaming Equipment, Vehicles and Other Equipment" is too long for SAS. How do I lengthen the variable name?
Thank you,
Todd
You cannot 32 is max variable name length. You can use IDLABEL to make the value of variable the variable label. I would create variable names from the value of variable that conform to V7 SAS Names and make sense to you and are easy to remember.
You cannot 32 is max variable name length. You can use IDLABEL to make the value of variable the variable label. I would create variable names from the value of variable that conform to V7 SAS Names and make sense to you and are easy to remember.
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