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Re: st: Want to load only part of ASCII file


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Want to load only part of ASCII file
Date   Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:12:42 -0400

Welcome to Stata and Statalist!

See a thread begining at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg00742.html for solutions.

About memory: Stata needs built-in memory (your computer might have a total of 2G or 4G), not hard drive memory. See the FAQ about your particular system for more details (e.g. http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/ )

Steve

On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to Stata, and new to this listserv. I'd like to load a very large ASCII .csv file into a .dta Stata file but it keeps bumping up against the 1.1g memory limit and Stata suggests I "drop some observations or variables." My question is how one can load just a portion of an ASCII file--for example, the specific variables of interest, or only those observations where variable1=xyz--so as to end up with a more manageable Stata file.

A second question is why I can't set memory higher than about 1.3g, when I have about 100g of space left on the computer, but that's probably something my computer & I need to work out between ourselves.

Thanks.

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