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Re: st: Store datafile at minimum possible file size
From
Michael Boehm <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Store datafile at minimum possible file size
Date
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:37:49 +0100
Dear Abdel, Martin and Nick,
Thanks a lot. This is already very helpful!
Michael
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Abdel Rahmen El Lahga
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Martin and Nick. I have note any idea avout this command.
> AbdelRahmen
>
> 2010/4/16 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
>> Note that Stata 11 has an embedded -zipfile- command.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abdel Rahmen
>> El Lahga
>> Sent: 16 April 2010 12:16
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: st: Store datafile at minimum possible file size
>>
>> In my experience the best solution is to zip immediatlt the stata file
>> without using ascci format. If we try
>> ************
>> clear*
>> set mem 2g
>> set obs 10000000
>> gen str12 var1 ="abcdefghijkl"
>> gen str14 var2 ="abcdefghijklmn"
>> gen var3 =rnormal()
>> gen var4 =runiform()
>> compress
>> qui save data_boehm , replace
>> outfile using "ascii_boehm.raw", replace
>> ls
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 abdelrahmenlahga staff 550000000 Apr 16 12:05
>> ascii_boehm.raw
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 abdelrahmenlahga staff 340000912 Apr 16 12:00
>> data_boehm.dta
>> *********
>> As you can see the ascii file is much bigger than the Stata one.
>> you can zip it to reduce the file zize to about 85m
>> HTH
>> AbdelRahmen
>>
>> 2010/4/16 Michael Boehm <[email protected]>:
>>> Dear statalisters,
>>>
>>> I have a big datafile (2 string variables, 2 numeric one, 10million
>>> observations) created in Stata and want to save it in the smallest
>>> version possible. I have tried out the "outfile" command to write it
>>> as an ASCII, but as far as I understand this doesn't give me the
>>> smallest ASCII file possible. Can anyone help?
>>
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> AbdelRahmen El Lahga
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