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Re: st: RE: Large data set that won't open
From
John Antonakis <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: RE: Large data set that won't open
Date
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:56:08 +0200
I have 4gb; just ordered 2 more gb. Maybe this will do the trick!
Best regards,
John Antonakis
On 24 juin 2010, at 10:05, "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> The size of your RAM is hard to tell from your current memory allocation -
> the latter is just a lower bound for the former. But I guess you do not have
> 6G of RAM, do you? You would still need additional RAM for computations,
> then.
>
> Note you can -use- a dataset with -if- and -in- qualifiers, so it is still
> possible to get a subset into mem...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Antonakis
> Sent: Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010 09:37
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Large data set that won't open
>
> 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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