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st: RE: Time taken for reshape command


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Time taken for reshape command
Date   Tue, 18 May 2004 17:07:36 +0100

I would have thought that more information 
was needed on your machine set-up and how 
much memory you asked of Stata to assess this. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Subhankar
> Nayak
> Sent: 18 May 2004 17:05
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Time taken for reshape command
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> The "reshape" command that I am using takes an extremely long 
> time and I am
> not sure whether this is normal.
> Let me mention the details.
> 
> I have 1000 observations and 926 variables.
> 
> Variable: "ID"  takes values from 1 through 1000. (denoting 
> 1000 companies)
> Variable  "Y"   is a specific corporate value
> 924 variables: X1 through X924 denote the 924 past stock prices.
> 
> I am reshaping it in the long format into 924000 observations and 3
> variables (ID,Y,X) using
> reshape long X, i(ID) j(DAYS)
> 
> This single command takes 10-12 minutes to process.
> Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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