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Bipingaud
Calcite | Level 5

Hii, can any one plz tell how can we retrieve a single random observation(row) from a data set?

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Shmuel
Garnet | Level 18

you can use:

    set input(obs=1, firstobs=) ;  /* change firstobs to any row number you want */

BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

Hi

 

You can use some options on the SET statement to achieve this, see example below. Please be aware when using the POINT= option, you also need a STOP statement, as otherwise the DATA Step will loop. Have a look in the doc at the description of the POINT= and NOBS= options. The variable name used in the POINT= option is not written to the output dataset, this is why I use two variables.

 

data want;
  getObs = ceil( ranuni(0) * numObs);
  _getObs = getObs;
  set sashelp.cars point=_getObs nobs=numObs;
  output;
  stop;
run;

Also look at Proc SURVEYSELECT for more sophisticated ways to get a random sample from a SAS data set

 

Bruno

Ksharp
Super User

proc surveyselect data=sashelp.class out=want sampsize=1;
run;

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