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Re: st: RE: RE: joinby command and memory issues
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: RE: joinby command and memory issues
Date
Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:41:03 -0400
Thomas <[email protected]> :
Why are you asking for a merge variable when you are keeping only matching obs?
If my proposal about making both datasets as small as they can be to
merge does not solve your problem,
you can also save the larger file in a few chunks and -joinby- that to
the smaller file,
then -append- the results together.
It would all be a lot easier if you moved to a computer that could
access more memory, of course.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Weichle, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does this demonstrate that using this method is limited by my system?
>
> The max memory appears to be right around 1050m. I read in the original
> datasets, drop unnecessary variables, compress the data, and then save
> them. After that, I perform the joinby and still see the error code.
>
> . joinby study_id using "G:\ESA_Cancer\ESA_DATA\ESA_USE\hgb0209.dta",
> unmatched(none) _merge(_merge
>> )
> no room to add more variables because of width
> An attempt was made to add a variable that would have increased the
> memory required to store an
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