Also, that was a hair hasty. You'll probably want a LENGTH statement, similar to this:

length Week Month $20;

between the DATA and SET statements in the code I provided. Otherwise, they may end up too short. (They may well not need to be 20 long, but you can decide that yourself; I'm just recommending that you set the length explicitly.)

Best, Tim

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-----Original Message----- From: Tim Kynerd Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:23 PM To: 'Tom Smith' Subject: RE: A Complex Tranpose or Data manipulation Question. Very Urgent - Please

Hi Tom,

Here's the easiest way I know of:

data newds; set oldds; keep Person Section Week Month; Section = 'Cognitive'; Month = cognitiveMonth; Week = cognitiveWeek; output; Section = 'Attention'; Month = AttentionMonth; Week = AttentionWeek; output; run;

If you really want Person to be missing on the second observation in each group, you can of course set it to missing in the code somewhere between the two OUTPUT statements, but I think it's better practice to keep it in the data and find a way to suppress it when you prepare printed output, if desired/necessary.

Best, Tim

Tim Kynerd Computer Programmer/Analyst ECD/HOPE 4 Old River Place, Suite A Jackson, MS 39202 P: (601) 944-9308 F: (601) 944-0808 tkynerd@ecd.org

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Smith Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:15 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: A Complex Tranpose or Data manipulation Question. Very Urgent - Please

I have a dataset with the following variables:Person, cognitiveweek, Attentionweek, cognitiveMonth, AttentionMonth as below:

Person cognitiveweek Attentionweek cognitiveMonth AttentionMonth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101 no symtom morderate very mild very mild 102 sever very mild morderate no sumptom 104 morderate sever no sumptom very mild

in the new dataset a new variable will be Section, week and month and after transpose it will be as below:

Person Section Week Month ---------------------------------------------------- 101 cognitive no symtom very mild Attention morderate very mild 102 cognitive sever morderate Attention very mild no sumptom 104 cognitive morderate no sumptom Attention sever very mild

Can anyone please help to do solve it in as short as possible? Thanks a lot from the bottom of my heart. Please do not feel offensive if I had ask a question that is too easy for you. I really need this help. PLEASE

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