Hi,
I have a dataset
ID Days
1 -78
1 130
2 -98
2 -89
2 -456
3 -57
3 3
I want to select the nearest to the "0" value from the group of ID.
With SQL you could do:
proc sql; select * from mydata group by id having abs(days) = min(abs(days)); quit;
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