Explain the message 'Merge has one or more datasets with
repeats of by variables'.

Answer Posted / vimal

If we are merging two datasets,

say,

a b
100 100
100

data x;
merge a b;
by id;

in this case, b has by variable repeated twice.

so the warning occurs.

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