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Re: st: Cannot get insheet to work, data do not load properly


From   "O'Neill, Sinead" <[email protected]>
To   "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Cannot get insheet to work, data do not load properly
Date   Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:22:40 +0000

May your dataset is too large for STATA. 
SAS can handle extremely large data. 

Sinéad O Neill
PhD Scholar
NPEC, ANU Research Centre
Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
5th Floor CUMH
Wilton, Cork.
(+353-21-492-0656)
(+353-86-3586895)

On 29 Aug 2013, at 16:21, "Laura Grant" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a long dataset (1.7m observations) that I can view partially in
> excel and fully in text editors.
> 
> However when I go to insheet it in Stata the data load as all blank
> entries except the first cell, which always loads as " ˇ˛X "
> where X is the first character of the first line of the data.
> 
> See screen capture at
> goo.gl/zaesv7
> 
> The number of variables and observations are correct but they are ALL MISSING.
> 
> The code I am using, as seen in pic link above, are variations on
> 
> insheet using "Res Usage 2008 to 2010.txt", names tab clear
> 
> Thoughts? Thanks!
> 
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