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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: .dta storage, why is too big? |
| Date | Wed, 8 Jun 2011 16:52:24 +0100 |
Stata also has a -zipfile- command. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Ronan Conroy On 2011 Meith 7, at 19:08, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > If you are running under Unix, you might use one of the Unix compress > commands on the dta file, and use the method described here: > > http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/pipe.html > > to read or write such files, achive much better compression, and > possibly higher speed. There are also two user-written utilities to save and read zipped and gzipped files. See under -findit zipsave- Zipping typically reduces Stata filesizes by 80% in my experience. Looking at some of the larger data files I have, it looks like Stata and JMP files are of the same size (JMP slightly larger), SPSS half that size and zipped files about 20%. * * 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/