I am relatively new with PROC LP. I am trying to run optimizations for a set of units across time. I.e, I want to know which units are efficient in time t, t+1, t+2, etc., to see how the efficiencies and units change over time. Noting that the input dataset needs to be in a text format, plus realizing that I want to try different inputs and outputs to the model, I am looking at developing far too many text files for my liking. Is there any way to use a SAS dataset as an input dataset for the PROC LP procedure, allowing me to set up a loop structure to rerun the model for each time period? Any help would be great.
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