proc transpose with variable name - sas

I have a dataset as following
AGE GENDER
11 F
12 M
13
15
now I want to create a dataset as following
Basically I want to have the variable names in another column.
or may be in one column like
VAR Value
AGE 11
AGE 12
AGE 13
AGE 15
GENDER F
GENDER M
I have tried normal proc transpose, but looks like it doesnt give the desired result.

This is not a strictly speaking a transpose. Transpose implies that you want to transform some columns into rows or vice-versa, which is not the case here. That sample data transposed would look like:
VAR VALUE1 VALUE2 VALUE3 VALUE4
----------------------------------
AGE 11 12 13 14
GENDER F M
What you're trying to do here instead is have all your variables in the same column and add a 'label' column.
You could have your desired result with a data step:
data have;
infile datalines missover
;
input age $ gender $;
datalines;
11 F
12 M
13
15
;
run;
data want;
length var $6;
set have(keep=age rename=(age=value) in=a)
have(keep=gender rename=(gender=value) where=(value is not missing) in=b);
if b then var='GENDER';
else if a then var='AGE';
run;
Note the where= dataset option on the second part of the set statement since your desired result does not include the missing values that you have for gender in your sample data.
Alternatively, you could do it with two proc transpose:
proc transpose data=have out=temp name=VAR;
var age gender;
run;
proc transpose data=temp out=want(drop=_name_ rename=(col1=VALUE) where=(VALUE is not missing));
var col1 col2 col3 col4;
by var;
run;

One solution is to introduce a new unique row identifier and use that in a BY statement. This will let TRANSPOSE pivot the data values in each row.
data have;
rownum + 1; * new variable for pivoting by row via BY statement;
input AGE GENDER $;
datalines;
11 F
12 M
13 .
15 .
run;
proc transpose data=have out=want(drop=_name_ rename=(col1=value) where=(value ne ''));
by rownum;
var age gender;
run;
In Proc TRANPOSE the default new column names are prefixed with COL and indexed by the number of occurrences of a value 1..n in the incoming rows. The artificial rownum and BY statement ensure the pivoted data has only one data column. Note: the prefix can be specified with option PREFIX=, and additionally the pivoted data column names can come from the data itself if you use the ID statement.
Mixed data types can be a problem because the new column will use character representation of underlying data values. So dates will come out as numbers and numeric that were initially formatted will lose their format.
If you are trying to make a JSON transmission I would recommend researching the JSON library engine or the JSON package of Proc DS2.
If you are looking to create a report with the data in this transposed shape I would recommend Proc TABULATE.

Related

Proc transpose in SAS with multiple observations in var variable

I have a dataset that I want to tranpose from long to wide. I have:
**ID **Question** Answer**
1 Referral to a
1 Referral to b
1 Referral to d
2 Referral to a
2 Referral to c
4 Referral to a
6 Referral to a
6 Referral to c
6 Referral to d
What I want the tranposed dataset to look like:
**ID **Referral to**
1 a, b, d
2 a, c
4 a
6 a, c, d
I've tried to transpose the data, but the resulting dataset only contains 1 of the responses from the answer column, not all of them.
Code I've been using:
proc transpose data=test out=test2 let;
by ID;
id Question;
var Answer; run;
The dataset has hundreds of thousands of rows with dozens of variables that are exactly the same as the 'Referral to' example. How can make it so the tranposed wide dataset contains all of the answers to the Question in the same cell and not just one? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Here's two methods you can use in this case.
The first uses a data step approach, which is a single step. The second is more dynamic and uses a PROC TRANSPOSE + CATX() after the fact to create the combined variable. Note the use of PREFIX option in the transpose procedure to make the variables easier to identify and concatenate.
*create sample data for demonstration;
data have;
infile cards dlm='09'x;
input OrgID Product $ States $;
cards;
1 football DC
1 football VA
1 football MD
2 football CA
3 football NV
3 football CA
;
run;
*Sort - required for both options;
proc sort data=have;
by orgID;
run;
**********************************************************************;
*Use RETAIN and BY group processing to combine the information;
**********************************************************************;
data want_option1;
set have;
by orgID;
length combined $100.;
retain combined;
if first.orgID then
combined=states;
else
combined=catx(', ', combined, states);
if last.orgID then
output;
run;
**********************************************************************;
*Transpose it to a wide format and then combine into a single field;
**********************************************************************;
proc transpose data=have out=wide prefix=state_;
by orgID;
var states;
run;
data want_option2;
set wide;
length combined $100.;
combined=catx(', ', of state_:);
run;

Produce custom table in SAS with a subsetted data set

I want to use SAS and eg. proc report to produce a custom table within my workflow.
Why: Prior, I used proc export (dbms=excel) and did some very basic stats by hand and copied pasted to an excel sheet to complete the report. Recently, I've started to use ODS excel to print all the relevant data to excel sheets but since ODS excel would always overwrite the whole excel workbook (and hence also the handcrafted stats) I now want to streamline the process.
The task itself is actually very straightforward. We have some information about IDs, age, and registration, so something like this:
data test;
input ID $ AGE CENTER $;
datalines;
111 23 A
. 27 B
311 40 C
131 18 A
. 64 A
;
run;
The goal is to produce a table report which should look like this structure-wise:
ID NO-ID Total
Count 3 2 5
Age (mean) 27 45.5 34.4
Count by Center:
A 2 1 3
B 0 1 1
A 1 0 1
It seems, proc report only takes variables as columns but not a subsetted data set (ID NE .; ID =''). Of course I could just produce three reports with three subsetted data sets and print them all separately but I hope there is a way to put this in one table.
Is proc report the right tool for this and if so how should I proceed? Or is it better to use proc tabulate or proc template or...?
I found a way to achieve an almost match to what I wanted. First if all, I had to introduce a new variable vID (valid ID, 0 not valid, 1 valid) in the data set, like so:
data test;
input ID $ AGE CENTER $;
if ID = '' then vID = 0;
else vID = 1;
datalines;
111 23 A
. 27 B
311 40 C
131 18 A
. 64 A
;
run;
After this I was able to use proc tabulate as suggested by #Reeza in the comments to build a table which pretty much resembles what I initially aimed for:
proc tabulate data = test;
class vID Center;
var age;
keylabel N = 'Count';
table N age*mean Center*N, vID ALL;
run;
Still, I wonder if there is a way without introducing the new variable at all and just use the SAS counters for missing and non-missing observations.
UPDATE:
#Reeza pointed out to use the proc format to assign a value to missing/non-missing ID data. In combination with the missing option (prints missing values) in proc tabulate this delivers the output without introducing a new variable:
proc format;
value $ id_fmt
' ' = 'No-ID'
other = 'ID'
;
run;
proc tabulate data = test missing;
format ID $id_fmt.;
class ID Center;
var age;
keylabel N = 'Count';
table N age*(mean median) Center*N, (ID=' ') ALL;
run;

How to transpose my data on sas by observation on data step

I have a sas datebase with something like this:
id birthday Date1 Date2
1 12/4/01 12/4/13 12/3/14
2 12/3/01 12/6/13 12/2/14
3 12/9/01 12/4/03 12/9/14
4 12/8/13 12/3/14 12/10/16
And I want the data in this form:
id Date Datetype
1 12/4/01 birthday
1 12/4/13 1
1 12/3/14 2
2 12/3/01 birthday
2 12/6/13 1
2 12/2/14 2
3 12/9/01 birthday
3 12/4/03 1
3 12/9/14 2
4 12/8/13 birthday
4 12/3/14 1
4 12/10/16 2
Thanks by ur help, i'm on my second week using sas <3
Edit: thanks by remain me that i was not finding a sorting method.
Good day. The following should be what you are after. I did not come up with an easy way to rename the columns as they are not in beginning data.
/*Data generation for ease of testing*/
data begin;
input id birthday $ Date1 $ Date2 $;
cards;
1 12/4/01 12/4/13 12/3/14
2 12/3/01 12/6/13 12/2/14
3 12/9/01 12/4/03 12/9/14
4 12/8/13 12/3/14 12/10/16
; run;
/*The trick here is to use date: The colon means everything beginning with date, comparae with sql 'date%'*/
proc transpose data= begin out=trans;
by id;
var birthday date: ;
run;
/*Cleanup. Renaming the columns as you wanted.*/
data trans;
set trans;
rename _NAME_= Datetype COL1= Date;
run;
See more from Kent University site
Two steps
Pivot the data using Proc TRANSPOSE.
Change the names of the output columns and their labels with PROC DATASETS
Sample code
proc transpose
data=have
out=want
( keep=id _label_ col1)
;
by id;
var birthday date1 date2;
label birthday='birthday' date1='1' date2='2' ; * Trick to force values seen in pivot;
run;
proc datasets noprint lib=work;
modify want;
rename
_label_ = Datetype
col1 = Date
;
label
Datetype = 'Datetype'
;
run;
The column order in the TRANSPOSE output table is:
id variables
copy variables
_name_ and _label_
data based column names
The sample 'want' shows the data named columns before the _label_ / _name_ columns. The only way to change the underlying column order is to rewrite the data set. You can change how that order is perceived when viewed is by using an additional data view, or an output Proc that allows you to specify the specific order desired.

how to split four columns into two tables in sas report

I have one table having 4 columns and i want to separate them into 2 table 2 columns in one table and 2 columns in another table.but both table should be below to each other.I want this in proc report format.code should be in report.
id name age gender
1 abc 21 m
2 pqr 23 f
3 qwe 25 f
4 ert 54 m
i want id and name in one table and age and gender in other table.but one below the other in ods excel.
I've split the main table into two tables using a data setp then appended them to each other, I added an extra columns called "source" in order to be differniate between the tables. if you use a Proc report you can group by "source"
Code:
*Create input data*/
data have;
input id name $ age gender $ ;
datalines;
1 abc 21 m
2 pqr 23 f
3 qwe 25 f
4 ert 54 m
;;;;
run;
/*Split / create first table*/
data table1;
set have;
source="table1: id & name";
keep source id name ;
run;
/*Split / create second table*/
data table2;
set have;
source="table2: age & gender";
keep source age gender;
run;
/*create Empty table*/
data want;
length Source $30. column1 8. column2 $10.;
run;
proc sql; delete * from want; quit;
/* Append both tables to each other*/
proc append base= want data=table1(rename=(id=column1 name=column2)) force ; run;
proc append base= want data=table2(rename=(age=column1 gender=column2)) force ; run;
/*Create Report*/
proc report data= want;
col source column1 column2 ;
define source / group;
run;
Output Table:
Report:
For data
data have;input
id name $ age gender $; datalines;
1 abc 21 m
2 pqr 23 f
3 qwe 25 f
4 ert 54 m
run;
Being output as Excel, the splitting into two parts can be done via two Proc REPORT steps; each step responsible for a single set of columns. Options are used in the ODS EXCEL to control how sheet processing is handled.
The first step manages the common header through DEFINE, the subsequent steps are NOHEADER and don't need DEFINE statements. Each step must define and compute the value of the new source column. There will be a one Excel row gap between each table.
ods _all_ close;
ods excel file='want.xlsx' options(sheet_interval='NONE');
proc report data=have;
column source id name;
define id / 'Column 1';
define name / 'Column 2';
define source / format=$20.;
compute source / character length=20; source='ID and NAME'; endcomp;
run;
proc report data=have noheader;
column source age gender;
define source / format=$20.;
compute source / character length=20; source='AGE and GENDER'; endcomp;
run;
ods excel close;
There is no reasonable single Proc REPORT step that would produce similar output from dataset have.

Converting proc freq output into a dataset

I have a sas data set with 564 variables. I need to create a new table with three columns, column1 will be the variables name , column2 will be the value of that variable, and column3 will be observation number.
So if I have a variable gender then gender will be listed 2 times in the variable column, and the gender values will be listed as m in the first row and female in the second row, and the column3 will be just the number of the observation. This is how it should look. Many thanks in advance.
var value obs
gender m 1
gender f 2
ans yes 3
ans no 4
The key to getting a table out of PROC FREQ that has all the values in one column is ods output combined with coalescec.
ODS OUTPUT lets you tell PROC FREQ to put everything into one dataset (as opposed to out= which just puts one Freq table into one dataset). That gives you a slightly messy result, which we then use coalescec to fix. That function takes a list of variables and returns the first nonmissing value from them; since the F_ variables always have just one value populated (the formatted value of the variable in the table), it's easy to use them.
ods output onewayfreqs=freqs;
proc freq data=sashelp.class;
tables age sex;
run;
ods output close; *technically unneeded but makes it more clear;
data want;
set freqs;
value = left(coalescec(of f_:));
run;
The rest of what you note above is trivial from that dataset.