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Re: st: Preserve and restore within a foreach loop


From   Florian Seliger <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Preserve and restore within a foreach loop
Date   Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:00:48 -0700

Dear Sergiy,

thank you again. There was another reason why STATA was interrupting running the do-file, but it seems to work pretty fine now.
I was not sure whether this combination with restore works at all with a loop, hence my question.
But I will keep your suggestions in mind for the remaining datasets.

Best,
Florian


Am 22.12.2010 um 08:27 schrieb Sergiy Radyakin:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Florian Seliger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalist,
>> 
>> I want to restore a big dataset at the end of each iteration in order to save time ( I don't want to reload the 2,5GB file after each iteration), e.g.
>> 
>> use big_dataset.dta, clear
> 1. check that this file^^^^ really contains the variable pat_var
> 
>> preserve
>> 
>> foreach file in ... {
> 
> 2. check that all the files in this list ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ really contain
> the variable pat_var
> 3. Output the filename in the loop:
> display `"`file'"'
> to monitor how far the program goes. If the problem is with a
> particular file, this will help
> identify which one is problematic.
> 
> 
> Best, S.R.
> 
> 
>> 
> 
>> joinby pat_var using "`file'"
>> 
>> drop pat_var
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> save changed_"`file'", replace
>> restore, preserve
>> }
>> 
>> ******
>> 
>> The last command is intended to restore the big_dataset that should be matched with each file specified in the loop. Unfortunately, STATA interrupts the process and tells me that it does not find the variable pat_var.
>> Hence, the command might not work as intended, but I don't know where I have made a mistake.
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Florian
>> 
>> 
>> 
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