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The TRANSPOSE Procedure

BY Statement


Defines BY groups.

Main discussion: BY
Featured in: Transposing BY Groups
Restriction: You cannot use PROC TRANSPOSE with a BY statement or an ID statement with an engine that supports concurrent access if another user is updating the data set at the same time.



Required Arguments

variable
specifies the variable that PROC TRANSPOSE uses to form BY groups. You can specify more than one variable. If you do not use the NOTSORTED option in the BY statement, the observations must be either sorted by all the variables that you specify, or they must be indexed appropriately. Variables in a BY statement are called BY variables.


Options

DESCENDING
specifies that the data set is sorted in descending order by the variable that immediately follows the word DESCENDING in the BY statement.

NOTSORTED
specifies that observations are not necessarily sorted in alphabetic or numeric order. The data are grouped in another way, for example, chronological order.

The requirement for ordering or indexing observations according to the values of BY variables is suspended for BY-group processing when you use the NOTSORTED option. In fact, the procedure does not use an index if you specify NOTSORTED. The procedure defines a BY group as a set of contiguous observations that have the same values for all BY variables. If observations with the same values for the BY variables are not contiguous, the procedure treats each contiguous set as a separate BY group.


Transpositions with BY Groups
PROC TRANSPOSE does not transpose BY groups. Instead, for each BY group, PROC TRANSPOSE creates one observation for each variable that it transposes.

Transposition with BY Groups shows what happens when you transpose a data set with BY groups. TYPE is the BY variable, and SOLD, NOTSOLD, REPAIRED, and JUNKED are the variables to transpose.

Transposition with BY Groups

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Note:    If a BY group in the input data set has more observations than other BY groups, PROC TRANSPOSE assigns missing values in the output data set to the variables that have no corresponding input observations.  [cautionend]


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