As @ballardw said, you should consider SAS/IML . It is very like R language.
data have;
input id $ @@;
cards;
A B C D E
;
proc iml;
use have;
read all var _all_ into x[c=vname];
close;
want=shape(x,12,ncol(x));
print want[c=vname l=''];
quit;
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