Re: st: Compress a closed file

[Mohamad Al Ississ <alississ@aucegypt.edu>]

Thanks Nick & Michael for the prompt response,
I meant -compress- within Stata, which it seem not doable without
loading the whole file. I'll resort to Michael's approach of  loading
some of the vars, -compress-and then -merge-,

Best,

Mohamad Al-Ississ, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
School of Business
The American University in Cairo



On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:

> Depends what you mean by compress.
>
> If you mean compress in the sense of using a stand-alone program like
> some flavour of zip or tar, then yes, you can, but I don't think it
> will solve your problem.
>
> If you mean compress in the sense of the Stata command -compress- ,
> then no, you can't.
>
> I think you are going to need to read some of the variables in,
> -compress-, -save-, etc.
> and -merge- saved files. Or ditto, but with observations, not
> variables. Or does your analysis really need _all_ the variables?
>
> Incidentally, note how helpful the Stata -cmdname- convention,
> commended in the FAQ, is for resolving ambiguity.
>
> Nick
>
> Mohamad Al-Ississ, Ph.D.
>
> > The file I'm trying to open a file that's too large for my Stata's memory
> (I
> > maxes the memory setting). I get the "no room to add more
> observations..."
> > error. I know that if I compress the file, it'll solve the problem. Is
> there
> > a way to compress the file w/o opening it?
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