Re: st: loading a big dataset in Stata

[Fabrizio Gilardi <Fabrizio.Gilardi@iepi.unil.ch>]

Hello,

I had the same problem with a much smaller dataset (about 5000 
observations 50 variables) using Stata 7 for Mac with OS X. The 
problem disappeared when running Stata with OS 9 (which is possible 
under OS X), though then the compatibility between Stata and 
applications running with OS X (in my case Excel) was worsened (e.g. 
copy from Excel and paste in Stata didn't work).

Hope this helps,

fabrizio




> Hi everybody,
>
> I am trying to load a big dataset with approx. 790,000 observations and
> 170 variables in Stata. I am having trouble loading the data first.  The
> data is an SPSS file. I saved the data as a tab-delimited file in SPSS
> and tried to open in Stata. However, got the following message:
>
>
> . insheet using c:\yellisall.dat
> no room to add more observations
>     An attempt was made to increase the number of observations beyond
> what is
>     currently possible.  You have the following alternatives:
>
>      1.  Store your variables more efficiently; see help compress.
> (Think of
>          Stata's data area as the area of a rectangle; Stata can trade
> off
>          width and length.)
>
>      2.  Drop some variables or observations; see help drop.
>
>      3.  Increase the amount of memory allocated to the data area using
> the set
>          memory command; see help memory.
> error in line 86591 of file
> r(901);
>
>
> Can anyone help me with this, please?
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Shqiponja
>
> Shqiponja Telhaj,
> PhD student,
> Department of Economics,
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