Re: st: Speed with large panel datasets

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Mon, 21/3/11, Gordon Hughes wrote:
> Ah, but the help file says:
> 
> "clear specifies that it is okay to replace the data in
> memory, even though the current data have not been saved to
> disk."
> 
> In my example (and my live test) I had saved the current
> data to disk.  So it seems that Stata is failing to
> recognise that this has been done or the help information
> ought to omit the final sub-clause

"even" does not mean that -clear- is unnecesary when you 
previously saved your data, it only warns the user that
even when they have not saved the data it will still be 
replaced. 

-- Maarten

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