Statalist


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re:st: Is a data set with size 296,242,984 too big for stata to analyze?


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re:st: Is a data set with size 296,242,984 too big for stata to analyze?
Date   Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:37:46 +0100

As others have said, it all depends on your OS, available memory, version of Stata and so on. The answer to your question is: It depends... I have just tried to drive up the size of the nlsw88 dataset by repeatedly -expand-ing it

**********
sysuse nlsw88.dta, clear
expand 3800
d
**********

which easily took me to "size: 298,718,000" without any complaints from Stata. I had -set mem 1G- beforehand. -des- returned that over 75% of the memory were still free...


HTH
Martin
_______________________

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/



© Copyright 1996–2024 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   What's new   |   Site index