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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Opening Stata file |
| Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2013 09:59:42 +0100 |
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Abu Camara wrote: > I am using Stata 13 IC and have attempted to open a file that has > probably 2047 variables and > I am getting the following message > no room to add more variables Say the file is called file1.dta, then you can see the exact variable names and their labels without opeing the file by typing: desc using file1.dta This can help when choosing which variables you want to keep and what their exact names are. Lets assume the variables you want to keep are called var1, var2, and var3. In that case you can open your file with only those variables by typing: use var1 var2 var3 using file1.dta Hope this helps, Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/