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st: Saving datasets temporarily - switching back and forth between two datasets
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"Ben Hoen" <[email protected]>
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st: Saving datasets temporarily - switching back and forth between two datasets
Date
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:54:13 -0500
I am executing a merge between one main dataset and a few others. Some of
the other datasets need some additional refining before they can be merged
easily (e.g., changing variable names, culling out duplicates), but I have
no need to save off these temporary versions.
Is it possible to hold the main dataset in "memory" while I quickly refine a
using dataset, then save IT into memory, from where I perform the merge?
Tangentially, if I was to save off a temporary file to merge to, can I erase
that file from a do-file?
Did that make sense?
Ben
Ben Hoen
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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