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Re: st: Cannot open .dta file due to size


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Cannot open .dta file due to size
Date   Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:17:41 -0400

For an example with -awk-, see:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg00802.html

Steve



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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM, miyu Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a huge dataset (200 GB) which I cannot open on STATA. Is there
>> any way I can make STATA to open the set only for selected variables
>> or choose the first, say, 100 observations only?
>
> That is indeed a large file, are you sure its saved in Stata format as .dta?
>
> Your best bet might be to open it on the computer on which it was
> saved (or identical specification with the same version of Stata
> installed).
>
> If however its a text file of sorts that you are trying to -insheet-
> you could use something like the 'head -n100 [filename] > subset.txt'
> command under UNIX-like OS's (which includes the terminals under MAC
> OSX) to get the first 100 lines of the file into the file subset.txt.
>
> If you don't have access to such systems you can install Cygwin which
> is a UNIX shell for Windows (see http://www.cygwin.com/).  There may
> be a similar native command under the DOS prompt but I'm not familiar
> with DOS I'm afraid.
>
> Neil
>
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