st: Large data set that won't open

[John Antonakis <john.antonakis@unil.ch>]

Hi:

I have a rather large data set that I cannot open in Stata; here are the 
particulars:

ls "D:\My Documents\STATA\upstata.dta",
5375.8M   6/23/10 10:44  upstata.dta  

When I try to open the data set I get:

. use "D:\My Documents\STATA\upstata.dta", clear
no room to add more observations
   An attempt was made to increase the number of observations beyond 
what is currently
   possible.  You have the following alternatives:

    1.  Store your variables more efficiently; see help compress.  
(Think of Stata's data
        area as the area of a rectangle; Stata can trade off width and 
length.)

    2.  Drop some variables or observations; see help drop.

    3.  Increase the amount of memory allocated to the data area using 
the set memory
        command; see help memory.
r(901);

Here is my current memory allocation:

. q memory

Current memory allocation

                   current                                 memory usage
   settable          value     description                 (1M = 1024k)
   --------------------------------------------------------------------
   set maxvar         5000     max. variables allowed           1.909M
   set memory         1024M    max. data space              1,024.000M
   set matsize        1000     max. RHS vars in models          7.713M
                                                           -----------
                                                            1,033.622M


It seems that I just don't have enough RAM to open this file.  Is that 
correct?

Best,
J.

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