The DATASOURCE Procedure

Output 12.4.1 and Output 12.4.2 illustrate how to extract weekly series from a sample CITIBASE file. They also demonstrate how the OUTSELECT= option affects the contents of the auxiliary data sets.

The weekly series contained in the sample data file CITIDEMO are listed by the following statements:

options yearcutoff=1920;

filename datafile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)citidem.dat" RECFM=D LRECL=80;

proc datasource filetype=citibase interval=week
                outall=citiall outby=citikey;
run;

title1 'Summary Information on Weekly Data for CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=citikey;
run;

title1 'Weekly Series Available in CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=citiall( drop=label );
run;

Note the following from Output 12.4.2:

Output 12.4.3 and Output 12.4.4 demonstrate how the OUTSELECT= option affects the contents of the OUTBY= and OUTALL= data sets when a KEEP statement is present. First, set the OUTSELECT= option to OFF.

filename citidemo "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)citidem.dat" RECFM=D LRECL=80;

proc datasource filetype=citibase infile=citidemo interval=week
                outall=alloff outby=keyoff outselect=off;
   keep WSP:;
run;

title1 'Summary Information on Weekly Data for CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=keyoff;
run;

title1 'Weekly Series Available in CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=alloff( keep=name kept selected st_date
                             end_date ntime nobs );
run;

Setting the OUTSELECT= option ON gives results shown in Output 12.4.5 and Output 12.4.6.

filename citidemo "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)citidem.dat" RECFM=D LRECL=80;
proc datasource filetype=citibase infile=citidemo
                interval=week
                outall=allon outby=keyon outselect=on;
   keep WSP:;
run;

title1 'Summary Information on Weekly Data for CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=keyon;
run;

title1 'Weekly Series Available in CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=allon( keep=name kept selected st_date
                            end_date ntime nobs );
run;

Comparison of Output 12.4.4 and Output 12.4.6 reveals the following:

The KEEP statement in the last two examples illustrates the use of an additional variable, KEPT, in the OUTALL= data sets of Output 12.4.4 and Output 12.4.6. KEPT, which reports the outcome of the KEEP statement, is only added to the OUTALL= data set when there is KEEP statement.

Adding the RANGE statement to the last example generates the data sets in Output 12.4.7 and Output 12.4.8:

filename citidemo "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)citidem.dat" RECFM=D LRECL=80;
proc datasource filetype=citibase infile=citidemo interval=week
                outby=keyrange out=citiout outselect=on;
   keep WSP:;
   range from '01dec1990'd;
run;

title1 'Summary Information on Weekly Data for CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=keyrange;
run;

title1 'Weekly Data in CITIDEMO File';
proc print data=citiout;
run;

The OUTBY= data set in this last example contains an additional variable NINRANGE. This variable is added since there is a RANGE statement. Its value, 15, is the number of observations in the OUT= data set. In this case, NOBS gives the number of observations the OUT= data set would contain if there were not a RANGE statement.