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Re: st: Cannot get insheet to work, data do not load properly
From
Laura Grant <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Cannot get insheet to work, data do not load properly
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:22:21 -0500
Don't think it's a length or size issue -- I have State SE and as I
mentioned, it loads but with blank entries.
The data look like this, tab delimited, 9 variables about 1.7mil observations:
ACCOUNTNUMBER ConcatenatedAddress DEVICE BillType PREVIOUSREADDATE
PREVIOUSREADING PRESENTREADDATE PRESENTREADING USE
44444444 5555 N GENERAL AV 99999999 Res 9/11/07 0:00 1106 12/11/07
0:00 1131 25
44444443 5553 N GENERAL AV 99999996 Res 12/11/07 0:00 1131 3/11/08
0:00 1158 27
I can view them in excel (but the length is too long) or in a text editor.
They look fine.
I can delete the top lines, save as different types, and the load
still looks like the screen capture.
Would appreciate any help!
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know what the limits are for STATA, but Stata can take 2
> billion observations.
>
> Main answer is that Laura's screen capture isn't extra evidence.
> Something is not in order for the file. Perhaps you could show us the
> first few lines of the file, or get in touch with tech-support.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 29 August 2013 16:22, O'Neill, Sinead <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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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