Re: st: Too many variables

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

Also, perhaps it may be useful to:

describe using filename

i.e. list the (many) variables without loading the dataset. I don't 
know whether that has the same limitation on the number of variables.
kd


At 11:37 AM 6/06/2008, you wrote:

> Chances are, you don't need nearly the number of variables for your 
> analysis as you have in your dataset.  In that case, use the 
> following syntax (from -help use-)
>
> use [varlist] [if] [in] using filename [, clear nolabel]
>
> eg. use var1 var2 var3 using dataset, clear
>
>
> Georgiana Bostean wrote:
>
> > Hi. I have the Intercooled version and I cannot open a dataset because it
> > has too many variables. What are my options?
> > Thank you in advance!
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