Dear All,
Can I please seek your help on how to achieve this?
For example, I would like turn data X into data Y.
Thanks a lot.
| Data X | Data Y |
| id grp | id grp |
| 1 A | 1 A |
| 1 B | 1 B |
| 2 A | 1 C |
| 2 C | 2 A |
| 3 A | 2 B |
| 3 B | 2 C |
| 3 C | 3 A |
| 4 C | 3 B |
| 3 C | |
| 4 A | |
| 4 B | |
| 4 C |
data x;
input id grp $1.;
datalines;
1 A
1 B
2 A
2 C
3 A
3 B
4 C
;
proc freq
data = x noprint;
tables id * grp / sparse
out = y (drop = count percent);
run;
id grp 1 A 1 B 1 C 2 A 2 B 2 C 3 A 3 B 3 C 4 A 4 B 4 C
I prefer the SPARSE statement with PROC FREQ to do things like this.
data x;
input id grp $1.;
datalines;
1 A
1 B
2 A
2 C
3 A
3 B
4 C
;
proc freq
data = x noprint;
tables id * grp / sparse
out = y (drop = count percent);
run;
id grp 1 A 1 B 1 C 2 A 2 B 2 C 3 A 3 B 3 C 4 A 4 B 4 C
I prefer the SPARSE statement with PROC FREQ to do things like this.
Thanks @maguiremq for your quick reply.
I was thinking something like datastep by reading a macro variable containing all the unique grp then using do loop to repeat for every row but I dunno how exactly.
This is much easier and should do for now.
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