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 Mb
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first
50)"

Thus far I have already tried the following

1. By right clicking on the R icon I have used --max-mem-size=1000M in the
"target" under "properties of the R icon
2. I have used library(foreign) at teh command prompt
3. then I use trialfile <- read.dta("C:/filename.dta")
 Here I get error for a Stata data file that is 600MB in size, however, with
data set in Stata 10 and Stata 8 of the size of 200KB, I have successfully
being able to import the stata file in R

I am therefor confused whteher there is problem with the version of my stata
file (which should not eb the case as I the smaller file of both versions
are working fine) or is it the size issue,

Its pretty important for me, kindly address this question
Thanks
Saurav


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Dr.Saurav Pathak
PhD, Univ.of.Florida
Mechanical Engineering
Doctoral Student
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Imperial College Business School
s.pathak08@imperial.ac.uk
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