| Date: | Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:57:34 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | Rick Wicklin <Rick.Wicklin@SAS.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Rick Wicklin <Rick.Wicklin@SAS.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: SAS PROC for numeric coding? XXXX |
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> Is there a SAS PROC out there that takes a multi-category discrete
> variable with character categories and converts it to a single numeric
> coded variable (not a set of dummy variables) with the character
> categories assigned as formats?
This was such an interesting question that I decided to blog about it:
http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2011/11/30/recoding-a-character-variable-
as-numeric/
There is an easy way to do this in SAS/IML that takes advantage of calling
PROC FORMAT from within the SAS/IML program.
Rick Wicklin
Statistical programming blog: http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml
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