SAS-Create Dynamic Tables Based On ID With Only Top 3 Showing - sas

Question

Hi I would really like to create dynamic tables based on the following sample data, create 4 new data sets based upon PAYEE_ID: 522,622,743,and 888. I want all all of the fields to be in the new 4 data sets, but only have the top 3 AMT_BILLED in the 4 tables for each type of PAYEE_ID
PAYEE_ID PAYEENAME MSG_CODE MSG_DESCRIPTION AMT_BILLED percentbilled claimscounts PercentLines TotalAmount TotNumofClaims
522 MakeBelieve Center 1 AA text field 1 10000 4% 50 16% 275000 305
522 MakeBelieve Center 1 BB text field 2 20000 7% 40 13% 275000 305
522 MakeBelieve Center 1 6N text field 3 30000 11% 30 10% 275000 305
522 MakeBelieve Center 1 5U text field 4 25000 9% 20 7% 275000 305
522 MakeBelieve Center 1 1F text field 5 90000 33% 100 33% 275000 305
522 MakeBelieve Center 1 2E text field 6 100000 36% 65 21% 275000 305
622 Invisible Center 2 A4 text field 1 600 2% 9 7% 34300 134
622 Invisible Center 2 D2 text field 2 700 2% 31 23% 34300 134
622 Invisible Center 2 D4 text field 3 8000 23% 11 8% 34300 134
622 Invisible Center 2 DS text field 4 10000 29% 62 46% 34300 134
622 Invisible Center 2 F8 text field 5 15000 44% 21 16% 34300 134
743 Pretend Center 1 1K text field 1 440 1% 2 1% 41040 246
743 Pretend Center 1 1N text field 2 3000 7% 7 3% 41040 246
743 Pretend Center 1 1V text field 3 400 1% 4 2% 41040 246
743 Pretend Center 1 2W text field 4 15000 37% 63 26% 41040 246
743 Pretend Center 1 3B text field 5 500 1% 2 1% 41040 246
743 Pretend Center 1 3H text field 6 7700 19% 41 17% 41040 246
743 Pretend Center 1 3Z text field 7 14000 34% 127 52% 41040 246
888 It's A MakeBelieve One B7 text field 1 68000 38% 257 29% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One B8 text field 2 5000 3% 47 5% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One B9 text field 3 200 0% 138 16% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One BB text field 4 1562 1% 18 2% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One BO text field 5 39999 22% 3 0% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One BZ text field 6 40000 22% 2 0% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One C2 text field 7 500 0% 5 1% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One C5 text field 8 7865 4% 395 45% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One C7 text field 9 8649 5% 14 2% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One CR text field 10 5674 3% 1 0% 178449 886
888 It's A MakeBelieve One CX text field 11 1000 1% 6 1% 178449 886
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I'm new to SAS, and this would really help me out. Thank you so much!

Answer 1

proc sort data=sampleData out=sampleData_s;
by payee_id amt_billed;
run;
You can use descending if by 'top' you mean largest e.g. by payee_id descending amt_billed;
Once the data are sorted you are able to read into a data step and use first and last e.g.
data partial_solution(drop=count);
retain count 0;
set sampleData_s;
by payee_id descending amt_billed;
if first.payee_id then count=0;
count+1;
if count le 3 then output;
run;
To output to different dataset names:
proc sort data=sampleData(keep=payee_id) out=all_payee_ids nodupkey;
by payee_id;
run;
data _null_;
length id_list $10000; * needs to be long enough to contain all ids;
* if you do not state this, sas will default;
* length to first value;
retain id_list;
set all_payee_ids end=eof;
id_list = catx('|', id_list, payee_id);
if eof then call symputx('macroVarIdList', id_list);
run;
You've now got a pipe separated list of all your id's. You can loop through these using them to create names for you datasets. You need to do this as SAS needs to know the names of the datasets you want to output to up front e.g.
data ds1 ds2 ds3 ds4;
set some_guff;
if blah then output ds1;
else if blahblah then output ds2;
else output d3;
output d4;
run;
So with the macro var loop:
%let nrVars=%sysfunc(countw(&macroVarIdList));
data
%do i = 1 %to &nrVars;
dataset_%scan(&macroVarIdList,&i,|)
%end;
;
set partial_solution;
count+1;
%do j = 1 %to &nrVars;
%let thisPayeeId=%scan(&macroVarIdList,&j,|);
if payee_id = "&thisPayeeId" then output dataset_&thisPayeeId.;
%end;
run;