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Re: st: RE: RE: joinby command and memory issues
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"Weichle, Thomas" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: RE: joinby command and memory issues
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Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:27:12 -0500
Ok, I have an update. I followed the -reshape- approach you suggested.
I had no problems with reshaping epo.dta. Then, I tried the merge with
hgb.dta (which only contained the necessary 3 vars and was compressed).
However, even this merge became too much for my system to handle. And
just to test, I tried joinby with hgb.dta. Not surprisingly, this
failed as well. So, I came to the point of needing to split hgb.dta. I
initially split it into 10 separate datasets. For each of these, I used
joinby with epo.dta. This worked smoothly and I saved the joined
datasets. Then, I appended all 10 together. I believe I am finally at
the point where I wanted to be.
Eric and everyone else, thank you very much for your suggestions. This
was quite a learning experience. By the way, I found out that we will
be upgrading to 64-bit in the near future!
Tom Weichle
Math Statistician
Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3)
Hines VA Hospital, Bldg 1, C202
708-202-8387 ext. 24261
[email protected]
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