e.g.
desc using `c(sysdir_stata)'auto.dta, sh
di (r(width)+4)*r(N) " bytes"
On 12/5/06, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
Julian--
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/howbig.html
On 12/5/06, Julian Reif <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a Stata command available that returns the size of the dataset in memory? I am running a series of very long scripts at the same time on a server and am performing an analysis to determine what the optimal memory allocation should be for each series of scripts. I know that the -describe- command will tell you the size, but it does not return the value in a local and I'd rather not go hunting through log files if possible.
>
> Julian Reif
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