Date:         Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:53:14 -0700
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From:         Bazyllll <bazyllll@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: how to plot the same variable
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Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV (Howard Schreier) wrote in message news:<200409070042.i870giNP019896@listserv.cc.uga.edu>...
> If you think about the synntax of the MERGE statement, you will realize
> that "given" was used just as a placeholder for the dataset name.
>
> Also, you do not want or need a SET statement if you are using a MERGE
> statement.
>
> So it would be:
>
>    data forplot;
>      merge R123(where = (sol=1) rename = (HP5=HP51) )
>            R123(where = (sol=3) rename = (HP5=HP52) );
>      by Nssd;
>      drop sol;
>      run;
Ok, thanks, sorry for my misunderstanding, now it works.