st: Re: How to reference results from a big dataset within a program

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Minxing <owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
 wrote:

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> I tried to copy of the simulated data within my program by using syntax such as "input x y z k", however, since there are so many observations (a little more than 400,000), and there are system limit for the maximum lines of syntax within a program (around 3500), I was not able to do this way. The reviewer also mentioned that I may use "Mata library" function, but I am pretty new to Stata Mata. Is there anyone that may be able to help regarding this issue?

This is easily done by using an F line to signal that the dta file is required rather than ancillary. For an example of a user-written package in which this trick is employed to make a required dataset available, 

ssc type kountry.pkg

and note the last two lines.

KIt

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