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Re: st: Cannot get insheet to work, data do not load properly
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"O'Neill, Sinead" <[email protected]>
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"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Cannot get insheet to work, data do not load properly
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:22:40 +0000
May your dataset is too large for STATA.
SAS can handle extremely large data.
Sinéad O Neill
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On 29 Aug 2013, at 16:21, "Laura Grant" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a long dataset (1.7m observations) that I can view partially in
> excel and fully in text editors.
>
> However when I go to insheet it in Stata the data load as all blank
> entries except the first cell, which always loads as " ˇ˛X "
> where X is the first character of the first line of the data.
>
> See screen capture at
> goo.gl/zaesv7
>
> The number of variables and observations are correct but they are ALL MISSING.
>
> The code I am using, as seen in pic link above, are variations on
>
> insheet using "Res Usage 2008 to 2010.txt", names tab clear
>
> Thoughts? Thanks!
>
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