I would just like to second the motion to include an -in- qualifier
for insheet. Just yesterday I received a csv file with 32 million
rows and 8 variables (1.7 GB) and, since I am using 32 bit Stata , I
couldn't use insheet and ended up writing a relatively slow loop using
infix with chunks of 5 million observations each. After the
processing each chunk, the full file shrank to a usable size (string
dates converted to Stata dates and a couple of value labels made the
file < 1GB).
It would have been very useful to be able to use insheet in this case
and I see no reason why the -in- or -if- qualifier isn't available for
this command.
Michael Blasnik
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