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Use a RETAIN statement to specify initial values for individual variables, a list of variables, or members of an array. If a value appears in a RETAIN statement, variables that appear before it in the list are set to that value initially.
Nearly every method of arranging variables in a dataset relies on the fact that SAS orders columns based on the order in which the variables are declared or defined. As such, declarative statements such as RETAIN will serve to order columns in a dataset when they are placed prior to the SET statement.
The syntax of the RETAIN statement is straightforward, the word retain plus the name of the variable you want to create. Note that a RETAIN statement variable will have a default value set to missing. This is why we are initializing the variable with a zero to complete the summation as we intended.
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The RETAIN statement causes SAS to hold the value of a variable from one iteration of the DATA step to the next iteration. The KEEP statement does not affect the value of variables but specifies only which variables to include in any output data sets.
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The RETAIN statement permits single values of variables to be carried forward from one iteration of the DATA step to the immediately following iteration, whilst the other approaches have the potential to allow values to be transferred from one iteration to any subsequent one.
The intended audience is beginner to intermediate SAS users. The RETAIN statement holds the value of a variable across data step iterations and the LAG function returns the value of the variable from the previous observation.
We use the RETAIN statement when we want SAS to preserve a variables value from the previous iteration of the DATA step. As a result, we could carry over the value of variables from one observation to another to perform calculations or compare values across observations.

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