--- [email protected] wrote:
> I have a dataset with more variables than my intercooled stata can
> open. How do I drop variables before stata actually opens it?
-use varlist [if] [in] using filename-
the varlist are the variables you want to have in your dataset and if
and in allow you to specify which cases you want to open.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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