Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2005-Jun-06: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jean Eid wrote: > > >Hope everyone id doing great .. > > > >Just need some clarification over the limit of write.dta. I have some > >coauthors that use stata and I need to send them my data in .dta format. > >the data.frame is 41706x229 and I get the following > > > >Error in write.dta(Panel, file = "STATADATA/Panel.dta", version = 7) : > > a binary write error occured > > > > > >Once I subset the data everything works out fine. my question is what are > >the limits of write.dta. I tried to find out but no luck.. > > > There aren't supposed to be any built-in limits. The error message that > you report means that the low-level operating system calls to write data > gave an error, so if a limit was hit it was in the operating system (?disk > full) > > -thomas
I have encountered the same error on Windows XP systems when trying to write large data frame to Stata files. Using R 2.1 and the current foreign package. The disk was not full. Andrew ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
