Date:         Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:41:13 -0500
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: random partitions

jlamack wrote:
> Dear all, I have a sas data set with 40 observations.
>  I would like to get 8 random partitions of size 5 of this sas data
>  set. Please, How can I do this??
>

Sort by random, then group by order

data _40;
  do rowid = 1 to 40;
    output;
  end;
run;

proc sql;
  create view ran40 as
  select *
  from _40
  order by ranuni(0);
quit;

data _40_8x5;
  set ran40;
  group = floor((_n_-1) /5);
run;


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