How to see size of current data in Stata 16

[Hosein Joshaghani]

I just upgraded from Stata 15 to Stata 16 and very excited about it. However, I'm wondering why the describe command in this version does not show size of data set. It only shows number of obs and vars. Any suggestion?

[John Mullahy]

I can confirm this on MacOS v10.12.6. The documentation indicates that size should be reported. I suggest reporting this to Stata Technical Support.

[Richard Williams]

Same is true in Win10. Having said that, none of the examples in the PDF documentation seem to show the size either. In fact, on p. 153 of d.pdf it says "The describe listing above also shows that the size of the dataset is 1,100." But the example referred to does not show that information. I agree, I think it is a bug.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

The same behaviour also happens with Windows. In the meantime, you can see the dataset size reported in the Properties pane under the heading Data.

[Boris Ivanov]

Has anyone ever found out what became of this issue? I am using Stata 16.1 and describe still won't report dataset size (or am I too blind to see?).
Or is there an alternative way to get the current dataset's size reported?

[Ilya Bolotov]

What about

memory
help memory

?