Error : Invalid DO loop control information, either the INITIAL or TO expression is missing or the BY expression is missing, zero, or invalid.
NOTE: Missing values were generated as a result of performing an operation on missing values.
I have a few rows of missing values in Usage and Time columns in this dataset(whole dataset has about milion rows), I assume that causes the problem?
Yeah. That is saying you have missing value for TIME variable ,just add one more condition.
data want;
if _n_=1 then do;
if 0 then set have(rename=(usage=_usage));
declare hash h(dataset:'have(where=(time is not missing) rename=(usage=_usage))',hashexp:20);
h.definekey('user','id_option','time');
h.definedata('_usage');
h.definedone();
end;
set have;
sum_usage_3hr=0;
if not missing(time) then do;
do i=time-3*3600 to time ;
if h.find(key:user,key:id_option,key:i)=0 then sum_usage_3hr+_usage;
end;
end;
drop _usage i;
run;
Now it's all zeros in SUM_USAGE_3HR. Can it be a problem if it's TIME stored as a string or as a integer?
When I wrote a program for loading data (after that, and before this step I had a few filtering and join) in input I include: TIME anydtdtm23.
"Now it's all zeros in SUM_USAGE_3HR. Can it be a problem if it's TIME stored as a string or as a integer? "
I doubted your TIME is not real integer, it should have decimal number.
Therefore Hash Table can correctly find the right TIME.
use int() to make TIME is integer as I said before.
TIME=int(TIME);
Thank you very much. I've solved this problem using the first code snippet you posted. Now I have just one, pretty similar problem, but I don't know did I need to create a new topic?
Yeah. Start a brand new session ,let more sas users to see it .
@jovic92: If your data is sorted, you can use the SET statement with POINT= to calculate rolling sums:
proc sort data=have; by User ID_option time; run; data want; set have; by User ID_option ; if first.ID_option then do; _Pstart=_N_; _start=time; sum=usage; end; else do; sum+usage; do _Pstart=_Pstart to _N_; set have(keep=time usage rename=(time=_start usage=_subtract)) point=_Pstart; if _start>=intnx('second', time, -3*3600) then leave; sum+-_subtract; end; end; drop _:; run;
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