Thanks David R.,
I agree on the Stata 12 memory management, which is set to . by
default now. I just didn't know what else to try.
And I know I can outsheet, the data, but the point is that I already
have an Excel file set up, with lots of conditional formatting, tables
that make use of the data I'm downloading, etc. That's why I was so
excited by the new sheet(), cell() and sheetmodify options in export
excel, so that I could just plunk down the data into the existing
sheet. I may in the end have to export the data first, say into its
own Excel sheet, and then do an Excel-to-Excel importation of the
data, but that would be so wasteful....
David E.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:47 PM, David Radwin <dradwin@mprinc.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> This is not actually a solution, but as a workaround you could create a
> tab- or comma-separated values text file using -outsheet-.
>
> Also, if you are using Stata 12, you shouldn't have to adjust the memory.
>
> David
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
>> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of David Epstein
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:15 AM
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Subject: st: Writing to large Excel files
>>
>> Dear Statalisters,
>>
>> I have a large dataset that I want to write to an Excel file, so I was
>> excited about Stata 12's new, improved import excel/export excel
>> features. However, the file I'm writing to is ~60Mb in size, and I
>> keep getting an error "file testsheet.xlsx could not be loaded". This
>> does not happen when I try to write to a smaller, or blank excel
>> sheet, I increased Stata's memory to much more than 60Mb, and I even
>> added the undocumented "set excelxlsxlargefile on" to my code, all to
>> no avail.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? Any help appreciated.
>>
>> David
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