Just a heads up: I am very new to Stata, and have to do a project for my Econ class, so please excuse my lack of understanding!
I have a .DTA file that is too large to open in Stata as a whole, because Stata can only take 2,048 variables. I have been typing in the following command to open specific variables I need for my regression: "use v009 v437 v438 using [filename]" and its been working for those three variables. However, I need to import two more variables from this large data set: m18 and m19. When I type in "use m18 m19 using [filename]" just like I did for the other variables, Stata gives me an error message saying: m18 ambiguous abbreviation.
After doing some searching around the internet I found away to turn off this error message by typing the command: "set varabbrev off, perm" but a new error message is returned: variable m18 not found.
These variables are vital for the success and completion of my project which is due next week, so I would really appreciate any help you could offer!
Thank you very much,
Ven
I have a .DTA file that is too large to open in Stata as a whole, because Stata can only take 2,048 variables. I have been typing in the following command to open specific variables I need for my regression: "use v009 v437 v438 using [filename]" and its been working for those three variables. However, I need to import two more variables from this large data set: m18 and m19. When I type in "use m18 m19 using [filename]" just like I did for the other variables, Stata gives me an error message saying: m18 ambiguous abbreviation.
After doing some searching around the internet I found away to turn off this error message by typing the command: "set varabbrev off, perm" but a new error message is returned: variable m18 not found.
These variables are vital for the success and completion of my project which is due next week, so I would really appreciate any help you could offer!
Thank you very much,
Ven
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