Re: st: Want to load only part of ASCII file

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

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See a thread begining at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg00742.html 
 for solutions.

About memory: Stata needs built-in  memory (your computer might have   
a total of 2G or 4G), not hard drive memory.  See the FAQ about your  
particular system for more details (e.g. http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/ 
 )

Steve

On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:38 PM, enewton@notes.cc.sunysb.edu wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to Stata, and new to this listserv. I'd like to load a very  
large ASCII .csv file into a .dta Stata file but it keeps bumping up  
against the 1.1g memory limit and Stata suggests I "drop some  
observations or variables." My question is how one can load just a  
portion of an ASCII file--for example, the specific variables of  
interest, or only those observations where variable1=xyz--so as to end  
up with a more manageable Stata file.

A second question is why I can't set memory higher than about 1.3g,  
when I have about 100g of space left on the computer, but that's  
probably something my computer & I need to work out between ourselves.

Thanks.

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