Thanks, Michael,
Region6 is a variable with a list of values. yes, i
guess I can try to sum/mea/median one variable each
time. Hopefully it works. In the meantime, if there
is another command or command combinations that allow
me to accomplish the same task, it would be great.
Thanks again.
--- Michael Blasnik <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Can you just load the variables you need to use for
> the command? If so,
> then maybe the collapse will work. If not, you can
> loop across levels of
> region6 and use the summarize command to get the
> means, median, and sum you
> want and use ther postfile command to write these
> results to a new file.
> How many categories are there for region6 and how
> big are they? Could you
> load each level of region6 one at a time, using just
> the variables you need,
> and use the summarize and postfile approach? Do
> you have a list of the
> region6 values, or will you need to create it if you
> loop across it's
> values? More info could lead to actual suggested
> code...
>
> Michael Blasnik
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allon Crazy" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:08 PM
> Subject: Re: st: Re: How to merge individual records
> to groups in a large
> dataset, w/o using collapse
>
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > thanks for your advice. Seperate the dataset into
> > smaller ones might be better,but I did try, still
> too
> > big for my 1G ram, using "collapse".
> >
> > An example I can give for what I want to
> accomplish is
> > :
> > collapse (mean) var1 var2 (median) var3 (sum) var4
> > [fw=weight5], by(region6)
> >
> > I am wondering whether there is any alternative
> ways
> > to do the same task but require less ram.
> >
> > many thanks
>
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