Re: st: Re: Saving 1 observation

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I think your plan for -post- is what I would try.  The best way to implement the 
idea may depend on how you plan on creating and using these files -- do you 
anticipate many files (thousands or more)  created each time?  Would it maybe be 
faster to post everything to one file, label it, and then pull apart that 
resulting file into single observations in a different way so that you are only 
doing each preserve/restore on a much smaller dataset?

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergiy Radyakin" <serjradyakin@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: st: Re: Saving 1 observation



> Dear Michael,
>
> thank you very much for your suggestions. Just as you wrote, the first
> one saves about half the time needed and is a good improvement. The
> second one is a bit complicated, since I don't immediately see how the
> labels can be declared/saved with this approach.
>
> So, I am thinking about saving the labels first with -label save-,
> then dumping the data into several files with -post-, then open them
> one-by-one and apply the saved labels and resave. Would that be the
> fastest way to do it?
>
> Thank you,
>   Sergiy Radyakin
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