Import only *some* data

[Caroline SmithG]

Hi friends,

I am trying to import ECLS-K data, but the data set is far too large for the basic version of data. Is there a stata command that I can run to only import some variables instead of the whole data set?

[Daniel Schaefer]

I'm not sure what you mean by "import" here (-import delimited-?), but if you have a .dta file, you can import only certain variables and/or observations. See this link or

help use

for the details.

[George Ford]

some import commands permit ranges (in 1/100000, type of thing). import excel has a cell range option.