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st: Large data file problem, perhaps


From   David Bell <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Large data file problem, perhaps
Date   Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:07:53 -0600

I am trying to read my first very large file into Stata. The file is in
SAS transport mode, converted from SPSS. I have successfully used
"fdause" to read in several other files from the same location. I am
using Intercooled Stata 9.1. "memory" tells me that I have
62,914,560 bytes of free memory. The command "fdadescribe" works:

. fdadescribe "/Stata/FamLegacies/_Data/Wave1Dyadic.xpt"

data from /Stata/FamLegacies/_Data/Wave1Dyadic.xpt, member(sas)
obs: 20,720 09feb06:10:41:41
vars: 146 (date shown exactly as recorded in file)
size: 24,200,960
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----
variable variable value
name type label variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----
famid str4
unit numeric
who numeric
towhom numeric
[output omitted]

but . . .

. fdause "/Stata/FamLegacies/_Data/Wave1Dyadic.xpt", clear

gives a syntax error message:

in invalid varname
r(198);

Does anyone know what is going on?

Dave Bell
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