I need help in merging two different datasets. I am merging
by date and I want to propagate observations from one
dataset to the corresponding dates. One dataset has a
unique date for each day of the month, while the other
dataset has same date for different patient visits. For
example I want to spread an observation on the 31DEC2008
from one dataset to several observations with the same date
on a second dataset for all the patients who visited on
that date. I have tried to merge the two and the result is
not what I wanted. Instead I get a dataset whereby all the
dates have missing values where observations from the first
datset should have spread.
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Answer Posted / kumaraswamy maduri
data new;
date1="31Dec2008"d;
run;
data new1;
input date1 date9. subj;
cards;
31dec2008 1
30dec2008 1
30dec2008 2
31dec2008 2
;
run;
proc sort;by date1;run;
data comp;
merge new(in=x) new1;
by date1;
if x;
run;
I have used the above code. I got perfect results.
Please correct me if I misunderstood your question.
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