fillin command not working

[Hannah Pham]

Hi, I'm trying to use the fillin command and even though my laptop has 8gb RAM, the command is not responding.

The command goes like this.
<fillin year sourcestate sourcecity deststate IndustrySector SubSector>
It works fine when only three variables were added.
<fillin year sourcestate IndustrySector SubSector>

Data has 265 observations.

What should I do, are there any other options?

[Nick Cox]

How many observations are implied? It's the product of the # of distinct values of all variables. That could be as much as

. di 265^6
3.463e+14

which is a lot. It will be less than that, I guess, but you can find out by running

distinct

on the original data and multiplying. But you must download that command before you use it:

search distinct

will give you the latest download location.

[Hannah Pham]

Thank you! It didn't work because of too many observations.