Date:         Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:32:22 +0100
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Antwort: May I pick your brains on TABULATE?
Comments: To: haworthla@MY-DEJA.COM
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At 16:59 28/04/00 GMT, haworthla@MY-DEJA.COM wrote:

>John, After that nice plug from Peter, I feel obliged to join in.
>
>Here's my solution. It's essentially a data step cheat. The technique
>is explained in my book. Or, there's a good Observations article on
>this at:

Lauren, thanks.  I'm not entirely sure about how what started out as a
private exchange between Peter and myself ended up as a SAS-L discussion -
but, as we say, 'the more the merrier'!

Yes, your suggested code does almost exactly what I wanted (I wanted %dead,
not %alive, but that's a trivial change).  In fact, I had already 'resorted
to' a 'data step cheat' (broadly similar to yours) - but was hoping that
Peter (who then suggested yourself!) might be able to tell me that TABULATE
had the intrinsic ability to do it - but it seems not!

Thanks again for your inout!

Kind Regards,


John

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