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Re: st: CSV read with limits
From
"Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: CSV read with limits
Date
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:46:46 -0500
I believe:
insheet X Y Z using file.csv, names comma
where X Y Z are the variables you want. I don't know of a way to limit
observations.
Also, csv files have a limit of 70K rows, so watch out.
DVM
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Argyn Kuketayev
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have CSV file (comma separated). I need Stata to read the 1st line
> with variable names, then import only selected variables. Also I want
> to limit the number of observations to read.
>
> I cant figure out how to do it in Stata. In SAS it would be easy with
> DATA, var list and OBS option.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Argyn Kuketayev
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