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Re: st: Want to load only part of ASCII file
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Want to load only part of ASCII file
Date
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:21:44 +0000
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Scott Merryman wrote:
> You might want to try David Elliott's -chunky- or Roy Wada's
> -chewfile-. Use -findit chunky- or -findit chewfile- to locate and
> download.
>
> Scott
>
Additionally, if your .csv file is already formatted in a way that you can insheet it, you could specify the varlist to insheet (see -help insheet-).
>> enewton wrote:
>> 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.
Physical memory (or RAM) is different from hard drive capacity. See these for more on your issue:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/pcreqs.html
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-01/msg00369.html
~ Eric
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>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:38 PM, <[email protected]> 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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