Re: [R] Large Stata file Import in R

2009-07-07 Thread Xavier
Thomas Lumley vas escriure el dia dt, 30 jun 2009: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Xavier wrote: saurav pathak vas escriure el dia dl, 29 jun 2009: Hi I am using Stata 10 and I need to import a data set in stata 10 to R, I have saved the dataset in lower versions of Stata as well by using saveold

Re: [R] Large Stata file Import in R

2009-06-30 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: Hello, You are dealing with two different problems at the same time: importing Stata data and importing a relatively big file. Can you try to export your data to txt file first and try to import from it directly? That's likely to be worse

Re: [R] Large Stata file Import in R

2009-06-30 Thread Xavier
saurav pathak vas escriure el dia dl, 29 jun 2009: Hi I am using Stata 10 and I need to import a data set in stata 10 to R, I have saved the dataset in lower versions of Stata as well by using saveold command in Stata. My RAM is 4gb and the stata file is 600MB, I am getting an error

Re: [R] Large Stata file Import in R

2009-06-30 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Xavier wrote: saurav pathak vas escriure el dia dl, 29 jun 2009: Hi I am using Stata 10 and I need to import a data set in stata 10 to R, I have saved the dataset in lower versions of Stata as well by using saveold command in Stata. My RAM is 4gb and the stata file is

[R] Large Stata file Import in R

2009-06-29 Thread saurav pathak
Hi I am using Stata 10 and I need to import a data set in stata 10 to R, I have saved the dataset in lower versions of Stata as well by using saveold command in Stata. My RAM is 4gb and the stata file is 600MB, I am getting an error message which says : Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.4

Re: [R] Large Stata file Import in R

2009-06-29 Thread Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
Hello, You are dealing with two different problems at the same time: importing Stata data and importing a relatively big file. Can you try to export your data to txt file first and try to import from it directly? Secondly, problems concerning reading big files with R occur quite often and there