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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: -save- a varlist |
Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:17:01 +0000 |
As Daniel Feenberg underlined recently, you can -outsheet- part of the data. In the same vein, -outfile- is another alternative. Nick On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote: > > I have a very large dataset (20gb) that I must access remotely, so that > -use- and -save- each take about 30minutes. When I have this file open, > I would like to create some secondary files that contain only 1-3 variable. > > If the file were smaller, I would typically use -preserve-, -keep-, > -save-, -restore- to do this. However, this takes a couple of hours. So > I am using > > . export excel var1 var2 var3 using file.xls, replace > > Then later using -import excel- to read them back in. This is much > faster, but has the obvious drawback that variable labels and other > attributes are lost. It is also aesthetically unsatisfying. > > Can anyone suggest an alternative? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/