I am trying to read in multiple datasets that are stored by year/grade. I have a macro which works to read in all the grades for the first year, but fails to continue onto the second year. Can anyone give some suggestions as to what might be happening here? I am getting no errors, just termination after creategrade runs through the loop 6 times. %macro createyear(num); %LET year = 97; %DO I = 1 %to # %macro creategrade(howmany); %LET grade = 3; %DO I = 1 %to &howmany; data eog&grade.pub&year._1; set eogsing2.eog&grade.pub&year._1; stdread=readscal; stdmath=mathscal; proc standard data=eog&grade.pub&year._1 mean=0 std=1 out=eog&grade.pub&year._1; var stdread stdmath; run; %LET grade =%eval(&grade+1); %END; %mend creategrade; %creategrade(6); %LET year =%eval(&year+1); %END; %mend createyear; %createyear(2); ... View more

I'm really struggling here to figure out exactly how I can accomplish something that seems rather simple with a macro. I am using manipulating multiple datasets which are named very similarly. Basically something along the lines of text01text01, then the next would be text01text02 and so on, until text02text01, etc. The "text" part doesn't change, just the numbers. Right now, it takes a lot of code to accomplish this, such as: data text01text01; set here.text01text01; var x=var y; ... run; data text01text02; set here.text01text02; var x=var y; ... run; So...how do I setup a macro so I don't have to repeat this code for every dataset I read in? I have looked around and tested some things out but I'm having trouble putting a macro into the name of the dataset. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Michael ... View more

Hello all: I'm trying to run the procedure LIFETEST but I'm getting an error. Here's my code: proc lifetest data=here.hw1; intervals=(12,24,36,48,60,72); method=life; time=t*(1); strata by race; run; Here's the SAS log: 78 proc lifetest data=here.hw1; ERROR: Procedure LIFETEST not found. 79 intervals=(12,24,36,48,60,72); 80 method=life; 81 time=t*(1); 82 strata by race; 83 run; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: PROCEDURE LIFETEST used (Total process time): real time 0.01 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds Here's my version of SAS: SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 3 XP_PRO platform Nothing I can find indicates I would be missing the lifetest procedure. This is a version of SAS obtained through my university. Please let me know what might be the issue. Thanks in advance! ... View more