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st: RE: Writing to large Excel files
From
"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Writing to large Excel files
Date
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:47:18 -0800 (PST)
David,
This is not actually a solution, but as a workaround you could create a
tab- or comma-separated values text file using -outsheet-.
Also, if you are using Stata 12, you shouldn't have to adjust the memory.
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Epstein
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Writing to large Excel files
>
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have a large dataset that I want to write to an Excel file, so I was
> excited about Stata 12's new, improved import excel/export excel
> features. However, the file I'm writing to is ~60Mb in size, and I
> keep getting an error "file testsheet.xlsx could not be loaded". This
> does not happen when I try to write to a smaller, or blank excel
> sheet, I increased Stata's memory to much more than 60Mb, and I even
> added the undocumented "set excelxlsxlargefile on" to my code, all to
> no avail.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? Any help appreciated.
>
> David
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