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Re: st: Store datafile at minimum possible file size
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Abdel Rahmen El Lahga <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Store datafile at minimum possible file size
Date
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:32:55 +0200
Thanks Martin and Nick. I have note any idea avout this command.
AbdelRahmen
2010/4/16 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> Note that Stata 11 has an embedded -zipfile- command.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abdel Rahmen
> El Lahga
> Sent: 16 April 2010 12:16
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Store datafile at minimum possible file size
>
> In my experience the best solution is to zip immediatlt the stata file
> without using ascci format. If we try
> ************
> clear*
> set mem 2g
> set obs 10000000
> gen str12 var1 ="abcdefghijkl"
> gen str14 var2 ="abcdefghijklmn"
> gen var3 =rnormal()
> gen var4 =runiform()
> compress
> qui save data_boehm , replace
> outfile using "ascii_boehm.raw", replace
> ls
> -rw-r--r-- 1 abdelrahmenlahga staff 550000000 Apr 16 12:05
> ascii_boehm.raw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 abdelrahmenlahga staff 340000912 Apr 16 12:00
> data_boehm.dta
> *********
> As you can see the ascii file is much bigger than the Stata one.
> you can zip it to reduce the file zize to about 85m
> HTH
> AbdelRahmen
>
> 2010/4/16 Michael Boehm <[email protected]>:
>> Dear statalisters,
>>
>> I have a big datafile (2 string variables, 2 numeric one, 10million
>> observations) created in Stata and want to save it in the smallest
>> version possible. I have tried out the "outfile" command to write it
>> as an ASCII, but as far as I understand this doesn't give me the
>> smallest ASCII file possible. Can anyone help?
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