Hello everyone,
I have been looking for some way to transpose data that contains which months certain individuals participated and how this can be turned into a readable table.
the data is currently like this
ID Month
01 JUN
02 MAY
02 JUN
03 APR
03 MAY
03 JUL
03 AUG
04 AUG
04 SEP
04 OCT
and i want it to look like this:
ID APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT
01 X
02 X X
03 X X X X
04 X X X
Is this possible with proc transpose or with some other proc in SAS?
thanks!
data have;
input ID $ Month $;
cards;
01 JUN
02 MAY
02 JUN
03 APR
03 MAY
03 JUL
03 AUG
04 AUG
04 SEP
04 OCT
;
data want;
do until(last.id);
set have;
by id;
array t $ APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT;
array u(7)$ _temporary_ ('APR' 'MAY' 'JUN' 'JUL' 'AUG' 'SEP' 'OCT') ;
_n_=whichc(month,of u(*));
if _n_ then t(_n_)='x';
end;
run;
data have;
input ID $ Month $;
cards;
01 JUN
02 MAY
02 JUN
03 APR
03 MAY
03 JUL
03 AUG
04 AUG
04 SEP
04 OCT
;
data want;
do until(last.id);
set have;
by id;
array t $ APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT;
array u(7)$ _temporary_ ('APR' 'MAY' 'JUN' 'JUL' 'AUG' 'SEP' 'OCT') ;
_n_=whichc(month,of u(*));
if _n_ then t(_n_)='x';
end;
run;
thanks, this worked beautifully for the visual. I tried the other two solutions but I still get the same errors I got when trying to transpose so this seems like the best option.
data have; input ID $ Month $; cards; 01 JUN 02 MAY 02 JUN 03 APR 03 MAY 03 JUL 03 AUG 04 AUG 04 SEP 04 OCT ; data have; set have; value=1; run; proc transpose data=have out=temp(drop=_name_); by id; var value; id month; run; proc stdize data=temp out=temp1 missing=0 reponly; var _numeric_; run; data want; retain ID APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT; set temp1; run;
Thanks, this is what I was initially attempting but I keep getting an error either in the BY or ID group that says the value appears more than once in the column of data. not sure if there is a work around or if Proc Transpose just isn't set up for duplicate values to be organized in a table like I would like.
Thanks!
What if the data stretches over more than one year?
Anyway, add a template for the months:
data have;
input ID $ Month $;
datalines;
01 JUN
02 MAY
02 JUN
03 APR
03 MAY
03 JUL
03 AUG
04 AUG
04 SEP
04 OCT
;
data have2;
if 0 then set have;
if _n_ = 1
then do;
month = 'JAN';
output;
month = 'FEB';
output;
month = 'MAR';
output;
month = 'APR';
output;
month = 'MAY';
output;
month = 'JUN';
output;
month = 'JUL';
output;
month = 'AUG';
output;
month = 'SEP';
output;
month = 'OCT';
output;
month = 'NOV';
output;
month = 'DEC';
output;
end;
value = "X";
set have;
output;
run;
proc transpose
data=have2
out=want (drop=_name_ where=(id ne ""))
;
by id;
var value;
id month;
run;
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