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


From   Kay Walker <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Want to load only part of ASCII file
Date   Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:03:36 +0930

Why not just import it all and then delete the unwanted columns? It's certainly quick if you have the memory available!

Eric Booth wrote:
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Additionally, if your .csv file is already formatted in a way that you can insheet it, you could specify the varlist to insheet (see -help insheet-).

Sorry, that part is incorrect.  While this works with selecting some variables using the -use- command, it doesn't work for -insheet- in the same way--I got these two confused.  (The varlist in -insheet- expects you to specify the names of all the variables, not a subset to be loaded)

~ Eric


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On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:21 PM,  wrote:

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Scott Merryman wrote:
You might want to try David Elliott's -chunky- or Roy Wada's
-chewfile-.  Use -findit chunky- or -findit chewfile- to locate and
download.

Scott

Additionally, if your .csv file is already formatted in a way that you can insheet it, you could specify the varlist to insheet (see -help insheet-).



enewton wrote:
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.
Physical memory (or RAM) is different from hard drive capacity.  See these for more on your issue:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/pcreqs.html
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-01/msg00369.html


~ Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
Fax: +979.845.0249
http://ppri.tamu.edu



On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:38 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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